Science Quotes
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.P. L. Berge
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
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.Josh Billings
There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.Isaac Asimov
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.Charles Darwin
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.Carrie P. Snow
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.George Sewell
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists though their field - work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.Robert Graves
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.Erich Fromm
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
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 Kelle
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.J. Frank Dobie
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.John Dewey
Art and science have their meeting point in method.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
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
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.Professor Edsger Dijkstra
I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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
Art is I; science is we.Claude Bernard
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
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.Samuel C. Florman
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.Hellen Kelle
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
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
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.Author Unknown
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.Rudolf Virchow
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
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.Alfred North Whitehead
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.Karl R. Poppe
