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Karl Kraus
(28 Apr 1874 - 12 Jun 1936)
Austrian writer and journalist.
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Science Quotes by Karl Kraus (4 quotes)
Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
— Karl Kraus
'Not For Women, But Against Men'. Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half-Truths: Selected Aphorisms, editted by Harry Zohn (1976), 101.
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy.
— Karl Kraus
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
— Karl Kraus
Pro domo et Mundo, (1912), 83. Translated by Harry Zohn (ed.), in 'Riddles and Solutions', Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half-Truths: Selected Aphorisms (1976), 47. From the original German, “Wissenschaft ist Spektralanalyse. Kunst ist Lichtsynthese.”
Science is spectrum analysis: Art is photosynthesis.
— Karl Kraus
As quoted in H.W. Auden, The Faber Book of Aphorisms (1962), 263.
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) -- 
