Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

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

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

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

Horton, Doug

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

Bronowski, Jacob

Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Marquis, Don

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

Dickinson, Emily

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Bancroft, George

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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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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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Weil, Simone

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

James, P. D.

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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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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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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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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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

George Santayana

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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford