Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Science

A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Huxley, Aldous

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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

Popper, Karl

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

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Ballard, J. G.

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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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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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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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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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Barr, Amelia E.

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

Byron, Lord

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Byron, Lord

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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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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

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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

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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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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Lamb, Charles

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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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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quincey, Thomas De

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lee, Harper

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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Faulkner, William

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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

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

Campbell, Thomas

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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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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

James, Henry