Science Quotes
I conceive the essential task of religion to be to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.Robert Millikan
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.Albert Einstein
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
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
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
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.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.Henry Louis Mencken
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
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.Barbara Tuchman
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
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
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
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
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.Bertrand Russell
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
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 George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
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".
I have seen the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.Charles Lindbergh, Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper (letter to the editor)
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
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
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
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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
Cowardice asks Is it safe Expediency asks Is it politic But Conscience asks Is it right.William Punshon
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
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
Art is science made clear.Jean Cocteau
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Phillips Feynman
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.John Owen
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
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
There is only one nature - The division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.Bill Wulf
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.Albert Einstein
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
