Motivational Quotes

Science

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

- Byron, Lord

Best Quotes about Science

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

Roux, Joseph

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, Chinese

Science is but the exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance.

Byron, Lord

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Mccarthy, Mary

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

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

Diderot, Denis

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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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 an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Gould, Stephen Jay

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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 mythology of science asserts that with many different scientists all asking their own questions and evaluating the answers independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and social backgrounds who came to science with very different ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been predominantly university-trained white males from privileged social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product often reveals more about the investigator than about the subject being researched.

Hubbard, Ruth

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Harrison Ford

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Eliot, George

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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

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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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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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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Louis Pasteur

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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 mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

Bancroft, George

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

Ashley Montague

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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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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Rostand, Jean

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

Krasel, Cornelius

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Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Billings, Josh

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

Confucius

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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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Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.

Butler, Samuel

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Conscience is a man's compass.

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Herrman, Robert

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Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us.

Fielding, Henry

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

Ehrlich, Paul

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We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.