Motivational Quotes

Science

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Science

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

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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 is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Klee, Paul

Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?

Russell, Bertrand

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Herzen, Alexander

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

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

10.

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

11.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

12.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

13.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

14.

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

Lee, Harper

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Confucius

18.

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

Byron, Lord

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Gill, Eric

22.

A bad conscience has a very good memory

23.

They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

Burroughs, William S.

24.

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

Long, Lazarus

25.

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

Adams, Mike

26.

When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

27.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

31.

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

Sophocles

32.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

33.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

37.

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

Richard Feynman

38.

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

39.

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

Parkhurst, Charles H.

40.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

41.

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

Ashley Montague

42.

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

Byron, Lord

43.

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

44.

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

Einstein, Albert

45.

Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

Bronowski, Jacob

46.

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

Sontag, Susan

47.

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

48.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Lucretius

49.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

Levi-Strauss, Claude

50.

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