Motivational Quotes

Science

In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

- Ehrenreich, Barbara

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Noam Chomsky

If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

Confucius

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

Bronowski, Jacob

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

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

McDonough, Denny

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

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

Sophocles

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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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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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

Roux, Joseph

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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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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Byron, Lord

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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.

Connolly, Cyril

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Horton, Doug

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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Rowland, Helen

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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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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Einstein, Albert

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

George Santayana