Science Quotes

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

Author Unknown

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.

Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Albert Einstein

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.

Arthur C. Clarke

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]

I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.

Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

Sir William Bragg

A clear conscience is a good pillow.

American Prove

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

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

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

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde

I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.

Robert Millikan

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

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

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Rebecca West

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

Science is organized knowledge.

Herbert Spence

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

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".

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 grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

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)

The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.

Albert Einstein

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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