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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(28 Jun 1712 - 2 Jul 1778)
Swiss philosopher and writer.
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Science Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (5 quotes)
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Emile (1762).
Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Emile (1762).
The issue is not to teach [a child] the sciences, but to give him the taste for loving them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Émile, or, On Education, new translation by Alan Bloom (1979), 172.
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Essai sur l'origine des langues (1781), 384
While government and laws provide for the safety and well-being of assembled men, the sciences, letters and arts, less despotic and perhaps more powerful, spread garlands of flowers over the iron chains with which men are burdened, stifle in them the sense of that original liberty for which they seemed to have been born, make them love their slavery, and turn them into what is called civilized peoples.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1750).
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) -- 
