Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Churchill, Winston

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Richard Feynman

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

Herrman, Robert

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

Klee, Paul

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

Dewey, John

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

Lamb, Charles

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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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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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art.

Sontag, Susan

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If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

Long, Lazarus

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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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Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Lorenz, Konrad

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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roux, Joseph

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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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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Sophocles

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Myles, Allanah

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My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain.

Shakespeare, William

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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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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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverb, Chinese

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Mead, Margaret