Motivational Quotes

Science

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

- Klee, Paul

Best Quotes about Science

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

Lee, Harper

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

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

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Herrman, Robert

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

Pascal, Blaise

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Myles, Allanah

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Herzen, Alexander

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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 Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.

Little, Robert J.

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Byron, Lord

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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Sontag, Susan

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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

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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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The true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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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What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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

Krasel, Cornelius

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.