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Johann Kaspar Lavater
(15 Nov 1741 - 2 Jan 1801)
Swiss writer.
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Science Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater (5 quotes)
Conscience is wiser than science.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
In George Augustus Lofton, Character Sketches (1893), 344.
Genius always gives its best at first, prudence at last.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Louis Klopsch, Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896), 105.
The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent. Intuition of the truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorism 93 (1787), in Aphorisms on Man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater (3rd ed. 1790), 36.
The humblest star twinkles most in the darkest night.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
In Aphorisms on Man: Translated from the Original Manuscript (1794), 29.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigour; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
Aphorism 23 (1787), in Aphorisms on Man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater (3rd ed. 1790), 11-12.
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) -- 
