Science Quotes
Science is nothing but perception.Plato
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61
Politics is no exact science.Otto von Bismark
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.Pope Pius XI
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.William Punshon
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.Arthur C. Clarke
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.Jeremy Taylo
Science would be ruined if like sports it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads - By - Choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.Benoit Mandelbrot
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
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
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.William Osle
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
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.Helen Kelle
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.Eric Temple Bell
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
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.Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
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 knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.G. H. Hardy
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas H. Huxley
