Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Washington, George

Best Quotes about Science

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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

Ashley Montague

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Cronenberg, David

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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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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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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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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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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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 an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

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

Roux, Joseph

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

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The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dewey, John

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

Froude, James A.

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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 is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

McDonough, Denny

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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Noam Chomsky

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

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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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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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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Dickinson, Emily

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De