Motivational Quotes

Science

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

- Frayn, Michael

Best Quotes about Science

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Dudevant, Madame

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

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

Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

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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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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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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

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

Ashley Montague

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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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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

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

Long, Lazarus

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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Valery, Paul

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In science,'fact'can only mean'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

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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 person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Lessing, Doris

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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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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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not'Eureka!'(I found it!) but'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

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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