Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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

Marquis, Don

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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

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

Myles, Allanah

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

Bancroft, George

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

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

When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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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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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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 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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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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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

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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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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Popper, Karl

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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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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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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Ruskin, John

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

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

Bertrand Russell

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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

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

Pascal, Blaise