Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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

Ehrlich, Paul

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Rowland, Helen

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Nash, Ogden

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Popper, Karl

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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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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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Albert Einstein

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For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Kipling, Rudyard

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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

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

Euripides

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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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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington

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

George Santayana

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Charron, Pierre

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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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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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Stael, Germaine De

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Bohr, Niels

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Proverb

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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

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There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.