Motivational Quotes

Science

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

- Cook, Joseph

Best Quotes about Science

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.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

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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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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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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Popper, Karl

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Asimov, Isaac

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The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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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 is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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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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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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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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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Sontag, Susan

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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

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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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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 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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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

Klee, Paul

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry