Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Science

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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

Popper, Karl

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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

Dewey, John

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

Bancroft, George

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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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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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

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Sontag, Susan

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

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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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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Charron, Pierre

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

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

Richard Feynman

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Marx, Karl

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

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

Louis Pasteur

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

George Santayana

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

Byron, Lord