Goetheanistic Science
As one can see by the article below Goethe's method was invoked at the outset of the science of the nineteenth and twentieth century. We feel these sentiments will grow in importance in the twentyfirst century.
The discrepancy between what we feel Goethe meant science to be and what developed seems to us due in part to the necesarry specialization and partly, to primitive models in science being kept, despite their demonstable inadequacy: matter, life, consciousness and evolution to name but a few. Those involved with research in these areas know how various schools of thought do battle with one another and how little clear-cut popularized opinions often really are. The links are intended to show how open these issues really are.
Goetheanism thus incorporates
- considering origins of scientific and mathematical thought
- becoming aware of how models taint our perceptions
- recognizing and utilizing aesthetic and moral moments
- relating phenomana both to the cosmic as well as to the human and natural context
Contents of the Introduction to the first issue of
the weekly scientific periodical 'Nature'
Nov 4, 1869
Goethe: Aphorisms on Nature
T. H. Huxley
" NATURE! We are surrounded and embraced by her: powerless to separate ourselves from her, and powerless to penetrate beyond her.
Without asking, or warning, she snatches us up into her circling dance, and whirls us on until we are tired, and drop from her arms.
She is ever shaping new forms: what is, has never yet been; what has been, comes not again. Everything is new, and yet nought but the old.
We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon her, and yet have no power over her.
The one thing she seems to aim at is Individuality; yet she cares nothing for individuals. She is always building up and destroying; but her workshop is inaccessible.
Her life is in her children; but where is the mother? ... "
For the remainder follow the link to the periodical 
Nature.