Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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

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

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

Nash, Ogden

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

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

Krasel, Cornelius

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

11.

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

Lamb, Charles

12.

I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

13.

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

Charron, Pierre

14.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

15.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

16.

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.

17.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

18.

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

Long, Lazarus

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Freud, Sigmund

24.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

25.

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

Horton, Doug

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Roux, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

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

Lessing, Doris

33.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

34.

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

Russell, Bertrand

35.

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

36.

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

Euripides

37.

Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

38.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Brown, Olympia

39.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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.

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

45.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

46.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

47.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

48.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

49.

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.

50.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig