Motivational Quotes

Science

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

- Cook, Joseph

Best Quotes about Science

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

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

Dewey, John

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Lee, Harper

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

Nash, Ogden

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

Ashley Montague

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Pascal, Blaise

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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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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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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Valery, Paul

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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

Levi-Strauss, Claude

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain.

Horton, Doug

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Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Pascal, Blaise

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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Cronenberg, David

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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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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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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

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

Lamb, Charles