Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Science

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

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Herrman, Robert

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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

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

Valery, Paul

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible.

Einstein, Albert

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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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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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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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O Star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, to waft us home the message of despair?

Campbell, Thomas

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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.

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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

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

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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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 may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

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What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

Rowland, Helen

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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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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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Walton, Izaak

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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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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.

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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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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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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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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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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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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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.

Euripides

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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