Science Quotes
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
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
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
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
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
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.Charles Sanders Pierce
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
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
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
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
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
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
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.South
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
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.Anonymous
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.Blaise Pascal
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.Mark Twain
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.Albert Einstein
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.Taylo
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
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
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".
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
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.Louis Pasteu
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
