Motivational Quotes

Science

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

- Beerbohm, Sir Max

Best Quotes about Science

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

George Santayana

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

Lamb, Charles

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

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

Bronowski, Jacob

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.

Euripides

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

Ruskin, John

Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

Krasel, Cornelius

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Walton, Izaak

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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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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin

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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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

Valery, Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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

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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Bush, Vannevar

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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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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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bertrand Russell

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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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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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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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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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Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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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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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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.