Science Quotes

Wernher magnus maximilian von braun - i believe in an immortal soul. science has proved...
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Marguerite de Valois
Bernard berenson - not what man knows but what man feels, concerns...
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.
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Richard Adams
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
Human science is an uncertain guess.
Edward G. Prio
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteu
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
Norman O. Brown
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteu
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.
Bertrand Russell
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914
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
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.
South
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
Max Gluckman
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)
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.
Andrew Schneide
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
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, Following the Equator (1897)
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Anonymous
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac Asimov
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
Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J. Smith
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Origen