Science Quotes

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

Lewis Thomas

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Robert Millikan

If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.

Erich Fromm

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

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.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.

Emil Wiechert

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Carl Sagan

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

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

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

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

Author Unknown

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

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.

Hellen Kelle

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

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

Author Unknown

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

Hippocrates

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

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

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Michel de Montaigne

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Henry Louis Mencken

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

Oscar Wilde

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

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

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.

B. F. Skinne

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

Science is but the statement of truth found out.

Coley

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.

Bertrand Russell