Science Quotes
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Albert Camus
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
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
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
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
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".
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.Claude T Bissell
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.Josh Billings
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.
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.Karl R. Poppe
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
Science when well - Digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanilaus
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
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.Anonymous
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.Author Unknown
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
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
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.Hasidic Saying
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
