Motivational Quotes

Science

Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.

- Quinet, Edgar

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Krasel, Cornelius

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt

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

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other -- only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

Parsons, Talcott

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Frayn, Michael

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

Washington, George

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

Richard Feynman

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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

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

Lamartine, Alphonse De

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Swift, Jonathan

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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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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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

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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course.

Little, Robert J.

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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of the fission bomb forces upon us the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb. We do not choose our problems, we do not choose our products; we are pushed, we are forced -- by what? By a system which has no purpose and goal transcending it, and which makes man its appendix.

Fromm, Erich

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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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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

James, P. D.

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What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

Hobbes, Thomas

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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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A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it.

Clark, Frank A.

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Do you see this egg? With this you can topple every theological theory, every church or temple in the world.

Diderot, Denis

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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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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

Lee, Harper

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

Konrad Lorenz

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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

Klee, Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Clarke, Arthur C.

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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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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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Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Daumal, Rene

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In science, all facts no matter how trivial, enjoy democratic equality.

Mccarthy, Mary

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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