In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
Johan Huizinga
More from: Johan Huizinga
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. -
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing. -
While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why. -
I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways. -
I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.
More quotes by Johan Huizinga
- Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
- An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
- These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution.
- History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.
- In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.