Paul Valery Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

  Paul Valery

  Science, Profound, Structure

• One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

  Paul Valery

  Fall, Science, Moon

• 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 Valery

  Art, Lying, Science

  "Moralités". Book by Paul Valery, 1932.

• The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

  Paul Valery

  Truth, Honesty, Spring

  "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci". Book by Paul Valery, 1895.

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

  Paul Valery

  Mean, Successful, Science

  'Moralitès' (1932) p. 41

• History is the science of things which are not repeated.

  Paul Valery

  Science

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