Motivational Quotes

Science

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Science

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

Churchill, Winston

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Sophocles

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

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Asimov, Isaac

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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

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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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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Charron, Pierre

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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Connolly, Cyril

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Bertrand Russell

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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Popper, Karl

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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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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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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry