Science Quotes
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
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
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.Albert Einstein
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
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
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
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
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.P. L. Berge
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
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.
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 far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.William E. Channing
Human science is an uncertain guess.Edward G. Prio
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 Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.Claude T Bissell
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.Marguerite de Valois
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
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
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)
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.Lewis Thomas
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.Von Weizsacke
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
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
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.Voltaire
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
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
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.Max Gluckman
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
