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Science

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

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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.

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

Lee, Harper

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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

Ruskin, John

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Didion, Joan

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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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 ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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

Popper, Karl

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Russell, Bertrand

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Byron, Lord

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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

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If politicians and scientist were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

Krasel, Cornelius

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The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Hubbard, Ruth

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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Diderot, Denis

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

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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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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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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

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

McDonough, Denny