Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Science

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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

Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Gould, Stephen Jay

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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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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Pascal, Blaise

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

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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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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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

Louis Pasteur

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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 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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To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Weil, Simone

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lee, Harper

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Horton, Doug

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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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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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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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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

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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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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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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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Valery, Paul

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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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Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Conscience is a man's compass.