Paul Valéry - Science Quotes

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Paul Valéry

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Paul Valéry

Without religions the sciences would never have existed. For the human brain would not have trained itself to range beyond the immediate, ever — present "facts" of appearance which, for it, constitute reality.

Paul Valéry

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.

Paul Valéry