Motivational Quotes

Science

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

- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Best Quotes about Science

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

Louis Pasteur

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.

Kant, Immanuel

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

James, P. D.

Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking.

Proverb

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

Huxley, Thomas H.

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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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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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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Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.

Cook, Joseph

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Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herrman, Robert

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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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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The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

Belloc, Hilaire

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

Asimov, Isaac

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Science is all metaphor.

Leary, Timothy

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The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

Cowper, William

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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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A bad conscience has a very good memory

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

Bancroft, George

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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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The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

Noam Chomsky

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

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Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

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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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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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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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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Popper, Karl

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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

Rostand, Jean

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound.

Einstein, Albert

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Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Proverb, Chinese