Motivational Quotes

Science

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Science

There is an insistent tendency among serious social scientists to think of any institution which features rhymed and singing commercials, intense and lachrymose voices urging highly improbable enjoyment, caricatures of the human esophagus in normal and impaired operation, and which hints implausibly at opportunities for antiseptic seduction as inherently trivial. This is a great mistake. The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Klee, Paul

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

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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

There's not a whole lot of new atoms out there.

McDonough, Denny

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Everywhere you look in science, the harder it becomes to understand the universe without God.

Herrman, Robert

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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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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

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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Marx, Karl

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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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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

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

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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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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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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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Faulkner, William

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Dickinson, Emily

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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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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.

Levi, Primo

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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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Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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 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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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Asimov, Isaac