Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Science

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

Dickinson, Emily

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Herrman, Robert

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Sophocles

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

Confucius

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

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverb, Chinese

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

McDonough, Denny

11.

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

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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 anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Bohr, Niels

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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

Louis Pasteur

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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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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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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

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

Floyd, Keith

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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 microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Proverb