Motivational Quotes

Science

Science is all metaphor.

- Leary, Timothy

Best Quotes about 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.

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

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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

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

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Sophocles

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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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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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Dewey, John

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There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

McDonough, Denny

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Lamb, Charles

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Lee, Harper

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Stael, Germaine De

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

Krasel, Cornelius

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

Eliot, George

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

Joad, C. E. M.

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von