Science Quotes
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
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.
All a man can betray is his conscience.Joseph Conrad
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.Anonymous
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
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
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
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.Jacob Chanowski
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.Louis Pasteu
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...Samuel Adams
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
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
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
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
A clear conscience is a good pillow.American Prove
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
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
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.Albert Camus
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.James F. Clarke
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.Louis Pasteu
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
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.Johann von Goethe
