Motivational Quotes

Science

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Science

Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Lorenz, Konrad

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Einstein, Albert

Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

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

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Byron, Lord

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Levi-Strauss, Claude

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

McDonough, Denny

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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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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Freud, Sigmund

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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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If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

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

Roux, Joseph

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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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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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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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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

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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

Dewey, John

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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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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Proverb

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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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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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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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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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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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Euripides

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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

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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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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.