Science Quotes

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington, Attributed in Robert L. Weber "More Random Walks in Science", 1982
Arthur c. clarke - politicians should read science fiction, not...
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
John dewey - every great advance in science has issued from a...
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.
William Punshon
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken
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
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Frank Herbert
Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.
General Omar Bradley
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Dame Rebecca West
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butle
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.
James F. Clarke
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.
Author Unknown
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
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
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
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
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
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
Budd Schulberg
Freedom is a clear conscience.
Periande
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
Oscar Wilde
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
Robert Millikan
The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
Ralph Waldo Emerson