Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Myles, Allanah

Best Quotes about Science

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Swift, Jonathan

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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

Lorenz, Konrad

In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quincey, Thomas De

Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.

Didion, Joan

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Marquis, Don

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dewey, John

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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

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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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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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Thus will the fondest dream of Phallic science be realized: a pristine new planet populated entirely by little boy clones of great scientific entrepreneurs free to smash atoms, accelerate particles, or, if they are so moved, build pyramids -- without any social relevance or human responsibility at all.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, 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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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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

Lamb, Charles

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

Quinet, Edgar

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Lee, Harper

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

Dudevant, Madame

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Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

Dickinson, Emily

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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 is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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

Walton, Izaak

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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 means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Valery, Paul

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

Nash, Ogden

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

Byron, Lord