Science Quotes
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Phillips Feynman
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?Carl Sagan
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.Isaac Asimov
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
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
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
A good conscience is a continual feast.Robert Burton
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
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
Politics is no exact science.Otto von Bismark
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
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.Benjamin Franklin
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
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
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.Author Unknown
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.Johann von Goethe
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.H. L. Mencken
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.Bertrand Russell
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
All a man can betray is his conscience.Joseph Conrad
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.Henry Louis Mencken
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.George Santayana
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.John Owen
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
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
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
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
