"Pursued one-sidedly, science confines our glance to the immediate, tangible, certain result. It turns the mind away from more general considerations and disaccustoms it to move in the realm of the quantitatively indeterminate. In one respect, this is the invaluable advantage that we prize, but where science reigns exclusive, the mind grows poor in ideas, the imagination in images, the soul in sensitivity, and the result is a narrow, dry, and hard mode of thought, forsaken by the muses and the graces."
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Emil du Bois-Reymond, "Civilization and Science" (1877) as quoted in Gabriel Ward Finkelstein, Emil du Bois-Reymond: Neuroscience, Self, and Society in Nineteenth-century Germany (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013) p. 223. A different translation appeared in Popular Science Monthly, vol. 13 (August 1878) p. 394
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