Science Quotes
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
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi
Courage without conscience is a wild beast.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? Expediency asks the question - Is it political? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, popular, or political; but because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
The true science and study of man is man.Pierre Charron
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.
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
The inspirational value of the space program is probably of far greater importance to education than any input of dollars... A whole generation is growing up which has been attracted to the hard disciplines of science and engineering by the romance of space.Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970
Art is I; science is we.Claude Bernard
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
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.Bertrand Russell
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
Science is but the statement of truth found out.Coley
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.Albert Einstein
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.John Owen
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.Elvin Stackman
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.Anonymous
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
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.
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.Jacob Bronowski, 1976
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
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.Michel de Montaigne
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?Charles Darwin
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
