Motivational Quotes

Science

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

- Billings, Josh

Best Quotes about Science

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

The true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

10.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

11.

Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Russell, Bertrand

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Huxley, Aldous

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There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.

Euripides

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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Kipling, Rudyard

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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Lessing, Doris

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Lee, Harper

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

Donne, John

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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey, John

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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Levi, Primo

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Rostand, Jean