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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Huxley, Aldous

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Waugh, Evelyn

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Eliot, George

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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Lamb, Charles

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Lee, Harper

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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

Shakespeare, William

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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Churchill, Winston

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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Popper, Karl

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Neumann, John Von

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

George Santayana

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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 person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.

Milton, John

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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

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Valery, Paul

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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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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Hubbard, Ruth

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

Confucius

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

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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

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo