Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Proverb

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

Albert Einstein

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.

Hubbard, Ruth

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Einstein, Albert

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Pascal, Blaise

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Sir Arthur Eddington

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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 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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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Rostand, Jean

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

George Santayana

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

Donne, John

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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

Dewey, John

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul