We make our beginning with a change which set in at the turn of the past century in the general evaluation of the sciences. It concerns not the scientific character of the sciences but rather what they, or what science in gereral, had meant and could mean for human existence. The exclusiveness with which the total world-view of modern man , in the second half of the nineteenth century, let itself be determined by the positive sciences and the “prosperity” they produced, meant an indifferent turning-away from the questions which are decisive for a genuine humanity. Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

- Edmund Husserl, The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology