Science Quotes
Art is I; science is we.Claude Bernard
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.Thomas H. Huxley
Those who become enamored of practices without science are like sailors who go aboard ship without a rudder and compass, for they are never certain where they will land.Leonardo da Vinci, The Wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.William Punshon
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.Izaak Walton
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
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
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl Sagan
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.Charles William Stubbs
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Art and science have their meeting point in method.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.Taylo
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.Henri Poincare
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Phillips Feynman
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
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 Kelle
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
The conscience of a people is their power.John Dryden
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas H. Huxley
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, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.H. A. Kramers
Conscience is the voice of the soul.Polish Prove
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
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 state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.Marguerite de Valois
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 - 12 to 1.Ernest Rutherford
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
