Science Quotes
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.Tyron Edwards
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
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
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
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
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.Bernard Berenson
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
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
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Phillips Feynman
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Science is the only true guide in life.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.Claude T Bissell
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Science when well - Digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanilaus
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.Budd Schulberg
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.Joseph Addison
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 of them.Mark Twain
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.Author Unknown
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.Henry Louis Mencken
