Motivational Quotes

Science

What a man calls his conscience is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Science

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Sophocles

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

Valery, Paul

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

Herrman, Robert

Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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

To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

Weil, Simone

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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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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

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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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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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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

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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?

Connolly, Cyril

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

Huxley, Thomas H.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience.

Euripides

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Layton, Irving

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things.

Allen, Woody

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

Albert Einstein

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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Teller, Edward

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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Auden, W. H.

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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roux, Joseph

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In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

Lamb, Charles

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

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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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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Confucius

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The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Walton, Izaak

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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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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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In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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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