Motivational Quotes

Science

Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

- Krasel, Cornelius

Best Quotes about Science

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Myles, Allanah

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

Pope, Alexander

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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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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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

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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

Walton, Izaak

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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

McDonough, Denny

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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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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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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Einstein, Albert

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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Richard Feynman

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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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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

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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

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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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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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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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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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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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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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If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

Confucius

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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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

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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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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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