Science Quotes
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.Charles Robert Darwin
To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.Hippocrates
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.Alfred L. Kroebe
As a doctor, as a man of science, I can tell you there is no such thing as curses Everything just happens as a question of probability. The statistical likelihood of a specific event.Andrew Schneide
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.Anonymous
Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.Carl Sagan
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".
Gods are fragile things they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.Chapman Cohen
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
Science... warns me to be careful how I adopt a view which jumps with my preconceptions, and to require stronger evidence for such belief than for one to which I was previously hostile. My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.Thomas Huxley
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.William Shakespeare
Science is the record of dead religions.Oscar Wilde
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
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.John Milton
The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.Bertolt Brecht, The life of Galileo
Engineering is the professional art of applying science to the optimum conversion of natural resources to the benefit of man.Ralph J. Smith
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.Taylo
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
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.Rudolf Virchow
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.Max Gluckman
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
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
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 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
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
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.Bertrand Russell
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.Karl R. Poppe
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.William Ellery Channing
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.Author Unknown
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Philosophy is the science which considers truth.Aristotle
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
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.Arthur C. Clarke
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
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
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - The dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other.Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer - Lytton
