Science Quotes

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 has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.

Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), James Reston, Galileo, A Life, HarperCollins, NY, 1994, p 461.

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

Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Bertrand Russell

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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

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

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

Charles Darwin

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Michel de Montaigne

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Unknown

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

Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - Of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?

Dick Francis, Twice Shy

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Prove

Science is nothing but perception.

Plato

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, Following the Equator (1897)

Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.

H. L. Mencken

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.

Albert Einstein

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

Hippocrates, Law

The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.

Jacob Bronowski, 1976

Science is the only true guide in life.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Jeremy Taylo

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

William Osle

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

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 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