Motivational Quotes

Science

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Science

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.

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

Albert Einstein

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.

Pasteur, Louis

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

Sontag, Susan

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

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

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

Proverb

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The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

Stael, Germaine De

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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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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Bertrand Russell

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Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.

Cronenberg, David

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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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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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Ehrlich, Paul

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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

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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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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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Isn't it marvelous how those scientists know the names of all those stars?

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

Louis Pasteur

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Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Byron, Lord

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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

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Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.

Pope John XXIII

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual sense of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtle than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

Powers, Richard

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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Huxley, Aldous

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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

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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In science men have discovered an activity of the very highest value in which they are no longer, as in art, dependent for progress upon the appearance of continually greater genius, for in science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men can apply it.

Russell, Bertrand

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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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 Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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