Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Butler, Samuel

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Hobbes, Thomas

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

Sophocles

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Faulkner, William

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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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.

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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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey, John

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lessing, Doris

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

Louis Pasteur

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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 the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Pasteur, Louis

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Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Hales, Stephen

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb.

Milton, John

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

Ashley Montague

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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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

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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

James, P. D.

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.

Donne, John

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley