Motivational Quotes

Science

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

- Frayn, Michael

Best Quotes about Science

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mencken, H. L.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Asimov, Isaac

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

James, Henry

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

Ashley Montague

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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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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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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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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 a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

Krasel, Cornelius

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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Pasteur, Louis

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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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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Ruskin, John

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

Byron, Lord

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

Eliot, George

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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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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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Brown, Olympia

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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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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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.