Science Quotes
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
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
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
It is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.Albert Einstein
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941
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
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.Arthur C. Clarke
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi
That the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience or to prevent the people of the United states who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms...Samuel Adams
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.Edgar Allan Poe
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
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
Fortunately science, like that nature to which it belongs, is neither limited by time nor by space. It belongs to the world, and is of no country and no age. The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance the more we feel how much remains unknown.Humphrey Davy
I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous - - A crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
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
Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.Azel Backus
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.Dame Rebecca West
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
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
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.Carl Sagan
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.Anonymous
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
Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology.Rebecca West
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".
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
Science is nothing but perception.Plato
STRATEGY is; A style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring FUTURE SUCCESS.Pete Johnson
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
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".
What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.Budd Schulberg
