Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Roux, Joseph

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Pascal, Blaise

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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 an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dickinson, Emily

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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 seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.

Little, Robert J.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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

Rostand, Jean

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Valery, Paul

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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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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 negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

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

Russell, Bertrand

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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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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Pasteur, Louis

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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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

Herrman, Robert

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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

Confucius

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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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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 worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Klee, Paul

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Russell, Bertrand

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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