Motivational Quotes

Science

But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

- Artaud, Antonin

Best Quotes about Science

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

Ashley Montague

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Bancroft, George

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

Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Shaw, George Bernard

Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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

Bertrand Russell

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

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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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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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In science,'fact'can only mean'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

Barr, Amelia E.

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pascal, Blaise

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

Klee, Paul

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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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 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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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.

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

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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 a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Eliot, George

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Auden, W. H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

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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

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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 but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Byron, Lord

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

Russell, Bertrand

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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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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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not'Eureka!'(I found it!) but'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov