Science Quotes

Karl barth - conscience is the perfect interpreter of life....
Pope pius xi - justice requires that to lawfully constituted...
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
T. H. Buxley
Ralph waldo emerson - science does not know its debt to imagination....
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French Prove
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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
Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
Cowardice asks the question - Is it safe? Expediency asks the question - Is it politic? Vanity asks the question - Is it popular? But conscience asks the question - Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science when well - Digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Stanilaus
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
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
M. C. Escher, Quoted in To Infinity and Beyond, E Maor (Princeton 1991)
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.
Carrie P. Snow
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 of them.
Mark Twain
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
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates, Law
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
A guilty conscience needs no accuser.
Anonymous
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.
Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau
A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
Joseph Addison
Science is but the statement of truth found out.
Coley
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.
Pete Johnson
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
Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.
Hasidic Saying
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
Blaise Pascal
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks "Rutherford at Manchester" (1962)
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
Engineering is the art or science of making practical.
Samuel C. Florman
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Johann von Goethe
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Thomas H. Huxley