Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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 is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Bertrand Russell

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

In science,'fact'can only mean'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Stephen Jay Gould

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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

Einstein, Albert

There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

George Santayana

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

Floyd, Keith

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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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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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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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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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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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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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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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

Herrman, Robert

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

Brown, Olympia

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Popper, Karl

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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 beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

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

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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.

Vannevar Bush

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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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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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

Byron, Lord

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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.

Henri Poincare

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Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

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Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.

Ballard, J. G.

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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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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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The man of science is a poor philosopher.