Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Dewey, John

Best Quotes about Science

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

Freud, Sigmund

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Richard Feynman

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

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Lorenz, Konrad

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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

Klee, Paul

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

George Santayana

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Lessing, Doris

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Pascal, Blaise

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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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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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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

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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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A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.

Little, Robert J.

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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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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nash, Ogden

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

Byron, Lord

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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin

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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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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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

Albert Einstein