Science Quotes

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Science is the record of dead religions.

Oscar Wilde

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914

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

Hippocrates

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

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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.

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.

Erich Fromm

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

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Robert G. Ingersoll

Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.

Eric Temple Bell

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

J. Frank Dobie

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is 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

Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.

R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn

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

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

Art is I; science is we.

Claude Bernard

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

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.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Robert K. Merton

It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.

Alfred North Whitehead

Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.

Ralph J. Smith

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

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Author Unknown

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.

Josh Billings

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

William Ellery Channing

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

Author Unknown

Art is science made clear.

Jean Cocteau

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

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right