Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible; and also in that it gives our ever-heightened life new skills to avert what is damaging and to introduce what is useful.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible; and also in that it gives our ever-heightened life new skills to avert what is damaging and to introduce what is useful." in the context of "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections, Penguin UK, 01-Dec-2005, p. 97." to mean that wisdom is timeless.