Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Science

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

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Ruskin, John

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Klee, Paul

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

Charron, Pierre

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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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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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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Lamb, Charles

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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Einstein, Albert

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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pascal, Blaise

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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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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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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

Euripides

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There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

McDonough, Denny

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Campbell, Thomas

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

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If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

Long, Lazarus

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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

Joad, C. E. M.

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

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von