Leo Tolstoy Quote

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live


Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), "Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy" (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90.


Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'what shall we do and how shall we live