Motivational Quotes

Science

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

Best Quotes about Science

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

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

Clarke, Arthur C.

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

Quincey, Thomas De

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

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

Dewey, John

Science is but an image of the truth.

Bacon, Francis

Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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

Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 -- 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Pirsig, Robert M.

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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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Man lives for science as well as bread.

James, William

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We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

Braque, Georges

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Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

Froude, James A.

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Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

Santayana, George

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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 man of science is a poor philosopher.

Einstein, Albert

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

Roux, Joseph

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Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Churchill, Winston

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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

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

Fitzgerald, Penelope

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed.

Plato

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

33.

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

Ashley Montague

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Valery, Paul

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

Euripides

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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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Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all things, the most likely way therefore to get any insight into the nature of those parts of the Creation which come within our observation must in all reason be to number, weigh and measure.

Hales, Stephen

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

Nash, Ogden

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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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Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.

Dudevant, Madame

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Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.

Einstein, Albert

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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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My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

Myles, Allanah

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

Einstein, Albert

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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Foucault, Michel

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

Eliot, George

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