Science Quotes

The true science and study of man is man.

Pierre Charron

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

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C. Clarke

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

Hasidic Saying

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Budd Schulberg

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

Claude T Bissell

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

Sir Francis Darwin, Eugenics Review, April 1914

Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.

William Hiram Foulkes

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

Azel Backus

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

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.

Mark Twain

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

Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

Marie Curie

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.

Bertrand Russell

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

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

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.

Dame Rebecca West

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Origen

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

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

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

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Chanowski

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson