Motivational Quotes

Science

The mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.

- Hubbard, Ruth

Best Quotes about Science

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Herzen, Alexander

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Proverb

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

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand

Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires.

Joad, C. E. M.

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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.

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Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Harper

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

Horton, Doug

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

Dewey, John

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Powers, Richard

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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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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Marquis, Don

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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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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Russell, Bertrand

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Lessing, Doris

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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 voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Einstein, Albert

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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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