Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
• Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
• Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
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Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Die Wissenschaft hilft uns vor allem, daß sie das Staunen, wozu wir von Natur berufen find." in the context of "Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
• Maxim 417, trans. Stopp" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" (Quotes, Maxims and Reflections (1833): Full text in German. Translation by Elisabeth Stopp (Penguin, 1998) follows Max Hecker's canonical German edition (1907). Bailey Saunders' selection, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe (1893), translates 590 of Goethe's 1413 maxims.)
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