Motivational Quotes

Science

There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.

- Louis Pasteur

Best Quotes about Science

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Confucius

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Hoffer, Eric

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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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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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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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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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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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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Bohr, Niels

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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

Herrman, Robert

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

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Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

Mencken, H. L.

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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 is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

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The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.

Sir Arthur Eddington

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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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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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The true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

McDonough, Denny

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

Myles, Allanah

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph