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Science

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

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In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

Truth in science can best be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

Lorenz, Konrad

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

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

Richard Feynman

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb

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I hate science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast. It is far easier for a Hitler or a Stalin to find a mock-scientific excuse for persecution than it was for Dominic to find a mock-Christian one.

Bunting, Basil

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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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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.

Proverb, Chinese

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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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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Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science.

Brecht, Bertolt

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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.

Carl Sagan

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

Ruskin, John

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

McDonough, Denny

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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 spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Sophocles

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All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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

Sir Francis Darwin

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But how is one to make a scientist understand that there is something unalterably deranged about differential calculus, quantum theory, or the obscene and so inanely liturgical ordeals of the precession of the equinoxes.

Artaud, Antonin

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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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

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

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

Louis Pasteur

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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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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges