Science Quotes
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
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
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Politics is no exact science.Otto von Bismark
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
Science is the only true guide in life.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 - 12 to 1.Ernest Rutherford
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.Isaac Asimov
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.Dame Rebecca West
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
Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?Dick Francis, Twice Shy
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.Michel de Montaigne
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
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
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas H. Huxley
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
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
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.Claude T Bissell
