Motivational Quotes

Science

Science is all metaphor.

- Leary, Timothy

Best Quotes about Science

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Ruskin, John

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bancroft, George

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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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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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 has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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

Lessing, Doris

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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Levi, Primo

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

Long, Lazarus

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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Bush, Vannevar

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

Popper, Karl

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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

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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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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.

Euripides

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Powers, Richard

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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Hubbard, Ruth

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Ashley Montague

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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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 must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 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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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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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

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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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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Auden, W. H.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

Donne, John

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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Waugh, Evelyn