Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Louis Pasteur

Best Quotes about Science

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

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

Ashley Montague

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

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

Euripides

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

Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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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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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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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Eliot, George

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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Ruskin, John

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Swift, Jonathan

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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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.

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