Motivational Quotes

Science

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.

Best Quotes about Science

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Sontag, Susan

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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

Confucius

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Asimov, Isaac

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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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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Churchill, Winston

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Lee, Harper

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Ashley Montague

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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.

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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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 man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bancroft, George

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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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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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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Einstein, Albert

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

Byron, Lord

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Gill, Eric