Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

McDonough, Denny

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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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Charron, Pierre

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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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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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Chandler, Raymond

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Popper, Karl

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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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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Marx, Karl

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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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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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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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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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 always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.