Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Belloc, Hilaire

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Popper, Karl

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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

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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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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Didion, Joan

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich

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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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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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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Dudevant, Madame

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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

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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

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Hales, Stephen

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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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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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

James, Henry

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

James, P. D.

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

Ruskin, John

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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