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Jean Cocteau
(5 Jul 1889 - 11 Oct 1963)
French poet and dramatist who also was a librettist and playwright, who acted, designed sets, and painted. He is remembered for such works as his play Orphée (Orpheus, 1926) and the novel Les Enfants Terribles (1929).
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Science Quotes by Jean Cocteau (3 quotes)
Art is science in the flesh.
— Jean Cocteau
In 'Le Coq et l’Arlequin' (Cock and Harlequin), in A Call to Order (1926), 7.
Tact in audacity consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
— Jean Cocteau
In A Call to Order (1926), 7.
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.
— Jean Cocteau
As quoted, without citation, in W.H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms (1962, 1966), 289. Webmaster has searched, but not yet found, a primary source. Can you help?
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
