Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Dudevant, Madame

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

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

Long, Lazarus

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Pascal, Blaise

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Weil, Simone

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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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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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Burroughs, William S.

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Herrman, Robert

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Russell, Bertrand

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Cronenberg, David

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

Myles, Allanah

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Dewey, John

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

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

Proverb

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

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The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Adams, Mike

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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