Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Science

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Bertrand Russell

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Gould, Stephen Jay

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.

Mead, Margaret

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

Joad, C. E. M.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

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

Walton, Izaak

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Rostand, Jean

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

Ruskin, John

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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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 without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Klee, Paul

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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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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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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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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Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Eliot, George

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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.