Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Science

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science

Einstein, Albert

No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

Byron, Lord

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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only one fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Now we know only a few laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course, by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by our ignorance of essential elements in the calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are commonly confined to those instances which we detect; but the harmony which results from a far greater number of seemingly conflicting, but really concurring, laws, which we have not detected, is still more wonderful. The particular laws are as our points of view, as, to the traveler, a mountain outline varies with every step, and it has an infinite number of profiles, though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft or bored through it is not comprehended in its entireness.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Lee, Harper

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

14.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not'Eureka!'(I found it!) but'That's funny ...'

Isaac Asimov

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Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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When we say science we can either mean any manipulation of the inventive and organizing power of the human intellect: or we can mean such an extremely different thing as the religion of science, the vulgarized derivative from this pure activity manipulated by a sort of priestcraft into a great religious and political weapon.

Lewis, Wyndham

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Nash, Ogden

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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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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

Einstein, Albert

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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Guin, Ursula K. Le

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

Einstein, Albert

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Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be -- and the non-necessity of it.

Hardy, Thomas

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

McDonough, Denny

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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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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

28.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

29.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Lewes, George Henry

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

31.

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

Richard Feynman

32.

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

33.

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

Confucius

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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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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Koestler, Arthur

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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

37.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Conscience does make cowards of us all.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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 analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Gill, Eric

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

Long, Lazarus

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

Byron, Lord

45.

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Bohr, Niels

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The true science and study of man, is man himself.

Charron, Pierre

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Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Dick, Philip K.

48.

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

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Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

Proverb, German