Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Valery, Paul

Best Quotes about Science

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

Bush, Vannevar

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

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

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.

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

Krasel, Cornelius

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

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.

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

Dewey, John

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

Confucius

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

Washington, George

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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

Albert Einstein

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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

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One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Louis Pasteur

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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

Neumann, John Von

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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

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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Kraus, Karl

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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

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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

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Science is what you know, philosophy what you don't know.

Russell, Bertrand

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The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a religion, hierarchically organized, things more than anything else will be done in the name of decency. The coarse fumes of tobacco and liquors, the consequent tainting of the breath and staining of white fingers and teeth, which is so offensive to many women, will be the first things attended to.

Lewis, Wyndham

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True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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

Marquis, Don

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

Dudevant, Madame

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

Klee, Paul

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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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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The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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

Long, Lazarus

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

Myles, Allanah

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

Adams, Mike

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Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.