Science Quotes

Carl sagan - if we long to believe that the stars rise and set...
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
Humphrey davy - fortunately science, like that nature to which it...
Charles darwin - ignorance more frequently begets confidence than...
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
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 democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.
Charles W. Tobey
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
Karl R. Poppe
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
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.
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
Taylo
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates
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
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert G. Ingersoll
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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
It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
Eric Anderson
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Anonymous
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
Robert Millikan
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
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.
Rudolf Virchow
Science is the only true guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
William Ellery Channing
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
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
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
Charles William Stubbs
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
John Owen
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.
William A. Smith, 1908
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?
Charles Darwin
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
Karl Barth