Quotes by Weil, Simone

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, a >>

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the s >>

The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the ins >>

Quotations about Science and Scientists

From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not d >>

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him in >>

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures. >>

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Weil, Simone