Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Lessing, Doris

Best Quotes about Science

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

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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

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

Freud, Sigmund

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

Charron, Pierre

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

Mccarthy, Mary

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not'Eureka!'(I found it!) but'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Proverb, Chinese

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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Weil, Simone

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Roux, Joseph

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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Russell, Bertrand

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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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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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Burroughs, William S.

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Confucius

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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

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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 product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Marx, Karl

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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

Lee, Harper

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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