Science Quotes

Budd schulberg - living with a conscience is like driving a car...
Carrie p. snow - science is the refusal to believe on the basis of...
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
Hippocrates
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)
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Claude T Bissell
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mustafa kemal ataturk, founder of modern turkey 22. 09. 1924 - science is the only true guide in life....
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Robert Darwin
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
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
The true science and study of man is man.
Pierre Charron
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.
Pete Johnson
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.
Mahatma Gandhi
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
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
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas H. Huxley
I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.
Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.
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.
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
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Marguerite de Valois
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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".
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
Von Weizsacke
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
George Santayana
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
John Owen
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
John Burroughs
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
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
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
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton