Motivational Quotes

Science

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.

Best Quotes about Science

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

Quincey, Thomas De

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Marx, Karl

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

Albert Einstein

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.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Powers, Richard

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Barr, Amelia E.

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.

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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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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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

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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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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Ruskin, John

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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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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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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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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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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Neumann, John Von

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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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Walton, Izaak

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Chandler, Raymond

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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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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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