Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Science

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi, St.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Freud, Sigmund

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Faulkner, William

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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 Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

Donne, John

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

Byron, Lord

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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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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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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

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, 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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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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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.

Bunting, Basil

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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Ashley Montague

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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.