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José Ortega y Gasset
(9 May 1883 - 18 Oct 1955)
Spanish philosopher and essayist.
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Science Quotes by José Ortega y Gasset (2 quotes)
The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.
— José Ortega y Gasset
The Revolt of the Masses: Authorised Translation From the Spanish (1950), 116
Today I am more than ever frightened. I wish it would dawn upon engineers that, in order to be an engineer, it is not enough to be an engineer.
— José Ortega y Gasset
In Toward a Philosophy of History (1941), 103.
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) -- 
