Science Quotes
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.Alexis Carrel
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.Thomas H. Huxley
Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.Izaak Walton
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
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
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
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non - Existence of Zeus or Thor - But they have few followers now.Arthur C. Clarke
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.William E. Channing
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.South
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen
The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.John Von Neumann
Conscience is the voice of the soul.Polish Prove
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.Polybius, History
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.Robert K. Merton
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10 - 12 to 1.Ernest Rutherford
I submit that an individual who breaks a law that 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 the law.Martin Luther King Jr.
He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.Jeremy Taylo
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.Mark Twain
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas H. Huxley
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.Alfred L. Kroebe
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.Sir William Bragg
Science is nothing but perception.Plato
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
Science when well - Digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanilaus
