Motivational Quotes

Science

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Science

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Kipling, Rudyard

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Rostand, Jean

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Horton, Doug

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Levi, Primo

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

Ruskin, John

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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Byron, Lord

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Chandler, Raymond

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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

Herrman, Robert

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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Bohr, Niels

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

Eliot, George

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

McDonough, Denny

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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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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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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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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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Dickinson, Emily

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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