Paul Valéry Quote

Much confusion in science, and in everything else, arises from this, that men who have no capacity for thought will presume to theorise, because they cannot see that mere stores of knowledge, however vast, in themselves give no capacity for thinking.


In: John Stuart Blackie, The Wisdom of Goethe, Philosophy, Metaphysics, Logic, Truth and Science (p. 159)


Much confusion in science, and in everything else, arises from this, that men who have no capacity for thought will presume to theorise, because they ...

Much confusion in science, and in everything else, arises from this, that men who have no capacity for thought will presume to theorise, because they ...

Much confusion in science, and in everything else, arises from this, that men who have no capacity for thought will presume to theorise, because they ...

Much confusion in science, and in everything else, arises from this, that men who have no capacity for thought will presume to theorise, because they ...