Motivational Quotes

Science

In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

- Lamb, Charles

Best Quotes about Science

The product of mental labor -- science -- always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Marx, Karl

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Myles, Allanah

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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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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Krasel, Cornelius

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

Dewey, 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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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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To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Hubbard, Ruth

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Artaud, Antonin

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

Klee, Paul

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

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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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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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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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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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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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.

Bunting, Basil

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No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Lippmann, Walter

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

Eliot, George

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Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marquis, Don

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

Pascal, Blaise

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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.