Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Science

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

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.

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

McDonough, Denny

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

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.

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

Lee, Harper

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

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

Dudevant, Madame

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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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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Neumann, John Von

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Adams, Mike

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

Dewey, John

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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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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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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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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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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Auden, W. H.

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

Walton, Izaak

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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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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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

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

Belloc, Hilaire

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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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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 true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.