Science Quotes

General omar bradley - our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. we...
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
George washington - labor to keep alive in your breast that little...
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
John Von Neumann
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Anonymous
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.
Thomas Huxley
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
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
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteu
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
William Osle
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Marguerite de Valois
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
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.
Charles W. Tobey
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas H. Huxley
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein
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
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C. Florman
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
T. H. Buxley
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French Prove
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
Conscience is the voice of the soul.
Polish Prove