More quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension."
"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving."
"El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien."
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
"The only thing that interests the physicist is finding out on what assumptions a framework of things can be constructed which will enable us to know how to use them mechanically. Physics, as I have said on another occasion, is the technique of techniques and the ars combinatoria for fabricating machines. It is a knowledge which has scarcely anything to do with comprehension."