Motivational Quotes

Science

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Science

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Ruskin, John

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

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

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

Confucius

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Popper, Karl

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The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Marx, Karl

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lessing, Doris

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not'Eureka!'(I found it!) but'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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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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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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 is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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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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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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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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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.

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

Huxley, Aldous