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Victor Cousin
(28 Nov 1792 - 13 Jan 1867)
French philosopher and education reformer.
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Science Quotes by Victor Cousin (2 quotes)
La critique est la vie de la science.
Criticism is the life of science.
Criticism is the life of science.
— Victor Cousin
In Victor Cousin’s Introduction to Peter Abelard, Ouvrages Inédits d'Abélard pour Servir à l'Histoire de la Philosophie Scolastique en France (1836), cxxix.
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give me its natural productions, its flora, its zoology, &c., and I pledge myself to tell you, a priori, what will be the quality of man in history:—not accidentally, but necessarily; not at any particular epoch, but in all; in short, —what idea he is called to represent.
— Victor Cousin
Introduction to the History of Philosophy (1832), trans. by Henning Gotfried Linberg, 240.
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) -- 
