Motivational Quotes

Science

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

- Teller, Edward

Best Quotes about Science

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Campbell, Thomas

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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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Herzen, Alexander

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roux, Joseph

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Lorenz, Konrad

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

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Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Gill, Eric

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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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What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Rowland, Helen

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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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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

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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

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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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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Marx, Karl

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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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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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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

Popper, Karl

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

McDonough, Denny

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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich