science

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

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A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.

- Little, Robert J.

4.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't -- it just keeps you from enjoying it.

- Singer, Isaac Bashevis

5.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

- Stephen Jay Gould

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

- Macarthur, Douglas

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To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

- Charles William Stubbs

8.

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

- Ballard, J. G.

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The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them into the service of man ... To make contributions of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality.

- Sir Eric Ashby

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

- Mencken, H. L.

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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

- Schumpeter, Joseph A.

12.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

- Frayn, Michael

13.

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

- Paracelsus, Philipus A.

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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

- Oscar Wilde

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What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ...Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

- Ivan Pavlov

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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

- Floyd, Keith

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Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. He, on his side, took it as though it were a doctor's fee, and both ignored the transaction.

- Leverson, Ada

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

- James, Henry

19.

Conscience is a man's compass.

- Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

- Koestler, Arthur