Motivational Quotes

Science

Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Levi-Strauss, Claude

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Rostand, Jean

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Valery, Paul

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Einstein, Albert

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

Walton, Izaak

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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

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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

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

Nash, Ogden

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Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

Freud, Sigmund

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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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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Popper, Karl

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Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Science is a game we play with God, to find out what his rules are.

Krasel, Cornelius

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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 conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Sophocles

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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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 true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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

Lucretius

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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis