Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Einstein, Albert

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Lee, Harper

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.

Bunting, Basil

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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Byron, Lord

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

Dickinson, Emily

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Popper, Karl

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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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Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.

Kant, Immanuel

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In science,'fact'can only mean'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

James, P. D.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

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

Klee, Paul

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

Charron, Pierre

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

Dewey, John

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Albert Einstein

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.