Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Freud, Sigmund

Best Quotes about Science

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lessing, Doris

If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

Long, Lazarus

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

Butler, Samuel

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

Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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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.

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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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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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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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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Einstein, Albert

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Einstein, Albert

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Ruskin, John

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Hobbes, Thomas

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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In science,'fact'can only mean'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

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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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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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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Popper, Karl

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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

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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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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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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.