Science Quotes
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.Author Unknown
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.Hippocrates
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.Norman O. Brown
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.Carl Sagan
The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes.Albert Einstein
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.P. L. Berge
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.Thomas Szasz
Statistics The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.Evan Esa
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.Karl R. Poppe
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
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.Arthur C. Clarke
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.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.Carl Sagan
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.Bertrand Russell
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.Friedrich Nietzsche
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
A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people.Charles W. Tobey
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.Frank Herbert
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.Charles William Stubbs
Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.Richard Feynman
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
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)
If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre pg. 61
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.Louis Pasteu
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
A clear conscience is a good pillow.American Prove
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dr. John H. Watson, referring to Sherlock Holmes, in "A Scandal in Bohemia".
Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.H. L. Mencken
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)
