Motivational Quotes

Science

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

- Bohr, Niels

Best Quotes about Science

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

Lee, Harper

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

Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

James, P. D.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Pascal, Blaise

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Powers, Richard

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

Long, Lazarus

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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Carlyle, Thomas

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Cronenberg, David

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quincey, Thomas De

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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Byron, Lord

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Dickinson, Emily

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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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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.

Kant, Immanuel

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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Auden, W. H.

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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Stael, Germaine De

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

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If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

Confucius

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The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.

Hubbard, Ruth

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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Gould, Stephen Jay

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

Dewey, John

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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Brown, Olympia

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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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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