Science Quotes

Albert einstein - the mere formulation of a problem is far more...
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.
Bertrand Russell
Ernest rutherford - you should never bet against anything in science...
P. l. berge - in science as in love, too much concentration on...
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Origen
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.
Rebecca West
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.
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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 most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Science is the record of dead religions.
Oscar Wilde
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
Carl Sagan
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
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
Saint Augustine
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 important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
Sir William Bragg
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Alfred L. Kroebe
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
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
John Owen
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.
Ralph J. Smith
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas H. Huxley
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
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
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord Ritchie - Calde
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.
Louis Pasteu
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.
Karl R. Poppe
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.
Charles W. Tobey
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
Benjamin Franklin
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
Author Unknown
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.
Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".