Science Quotes
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
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.
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.Ricthe
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.Samuel Johnson
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.Erich Fromm
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.Hasidic Saying
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
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along without it for a week.Eric Temple Bell
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.Lord Ritchie - Calde
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
Whereas in art nothing worth doing can be done without genius, in science even a very moderate capacity can contribute to a supreme achievement.Bertrand Russell
Science is the only true guide in life.Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.John Owen
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.Logan Pearsall Smith
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.Mary McCarthy
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
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
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.Oscar Wilde
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
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.Ivan Pavlov
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.Oscar Wilde
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste.William A. Smith, 1908
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.Claude T Bissell
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.Robert Anson Heinlein
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.Richard Phillips Feynman
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.John Burroughs
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.Richard Adams
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
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
