Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Science

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

Kipling, Rudyard

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sir Francis Darwin

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

Roux, Joseph

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey, John

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

Byron, Lord

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A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Faulkner, William

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Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

Thomas H. Huxley

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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Dudevant, Madame

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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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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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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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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie

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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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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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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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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 is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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

Adams, Mike

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

Washington, George

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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Asimov, Isaac

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A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Proverb

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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

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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

Klee, Paul

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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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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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher.

Marquis, Don

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People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

James, Henry

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The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Ruskin, John

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

Sontag, Susan

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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There are no better terms available to describe [The] difference between the approach of the natural and the social sciences than to call the former objective and the latter subjective. ... While for the natural scientist the contrast between objective facts and subjective opinions is a simple one, the distinction cannot as readily be applied to the object of the social sciences. The reason for this is that the object, the facts of the social sciences are also opinions -- not opinions of the student of the social phenomena, of course, but opinions of those whose actions produce the object of the social scientist.

Hayek, Friedrich August Von

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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt