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Rémy de Gourmont
(4 Apr 1858 - 27 Sep 1915)
French poet who was also an essayist, considered the most brilliant French critic of the early 1900s. He also wrote novels.
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Science Quotes by Rémy de Gourmont (3 quotes)
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life.
— Rémy de Gourmont
Rémy de Gourmont and Glenn Stephen Burne (ed.), Selected Writings (1966), 170.
Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity.
— Rémy de Gourmont
In Lily Splane, Quantum Consciousness (2004), 309
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
— Rémy de Gourmont
repr. In Selected Writings, ed. and trans. by Glen S. Burne (1966). 'Art and Science,' Promenades Philosophiques (1905-1909).
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) -- 
