Science Quotes

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.

Nancy Banks - Smith

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Lord Ritchie - Calde

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Charles Sanders Pierce

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

Mark Twain

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

George Santayana

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.

Izaak Walton

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Albert Camus

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.

Humphrey Davy

Science may have found a cure for most evils but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - The apathy of human beings.

Hellen Kelle

By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.

M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

James F. Clarke

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Marguerite de Valois

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

William Osle

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

Hippocrates

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spence

Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.

Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Professor Edsger Dijkstra

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

Carl Sagan

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.

Mary McCarthy

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson