Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Best Quotes about Science

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, George

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

Russell, Bertrand

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

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

Dudevant, Madame

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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

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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

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

Popper, Karl

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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

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, 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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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

Roux, Joseph

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Klee, Paul

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

Charron, Pierre

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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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

Valery, Paul

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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

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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.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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 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

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Proverb

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von