William Whewell Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences

  William Whewell

  Art, Knowledge, Mean

  William Whewell (1858). “Novum organon renovatum”, p.129

• Gold and iron at the present day, as in ancient times, are the rulers of the world; and the great events in the world of mineral art are not the discovery of new substances, but of new and rich localities of old ones.

  William Whewell

  Art, Science, Discovery

  William Whewell (1856). “Lectures on the Progress of Arts and Science, Resulting from the Great Exhibition in London ...”, p.22

• In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

  William Whewell

  Art, Mean, Truth Is

  William Whewell (1840). “Aphorisms Concerning Ideas, Science & the Language of Science”, p.25

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