Edmund Husserl: Quotes about science

Edmund Husserl was German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology. Explore interesting quotes on science.

Edmund Husserl: 14 quotes9 likes

“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”

“Experience by itself is not science.”

... bloße Erfahrung ist keine Wissenschaft.
Pure Phenomenology, 1917

“A new fundamental science, pure phenomenology, has developed within philosophy: This is a science of a thoroughly new type and endless scope. It is inferior in methodological rigor to none of the modern sciences. All philosophical disciplines are rooted in pure phenomenology, through whose development, and through it alone, they obtain their proper force.”

Pure Phenomenology, 1917

“First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.”

Edmund Husserl book Cartesian Meditations

Edmund Husserl, Cartesian Meditations (1931). Méditations cartésiennes