Science Quotes
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.Nancy Banks - Smith
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Stephen Leacock
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 has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.Edgar Allan Poe
Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.Albert Einstein
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley
The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.Rudolf Virchow
If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant to attain, in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks.Francis Bacon
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.Marguerite de Valois
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.Author Unknown
Science and religion no more contradict each other than light and electricity.William Hiram Foulkes
All a man can betray is his conscience.Joseph Conrad
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.Saint Augustine
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 Bulwer - Lytton
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.Thomas H. Huxley
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.Dame Rebecca West
Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.Friedrich Nietzsche
Science when well - Digested is nothing but good sense and reason.Stanilaus
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.H. L. Mencken
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.Thomas H. Huxley
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science?Carl Sagan
In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.Mahatma Gandhi
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
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.The Talmud
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
A good conscience is a continual Christmas.Benjamin Franklin
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - That is why they invented hell.Bertrand Russell
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
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
Strategy is a style of thinking, a conscious and deliberate process, an intensive implementation system, the science of insuring future success.Pete Johnson
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.Voltaire
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry... If mathematical analysis should ever had prominent place in chemistry - An aberration, which is happily almost impossible - It would be a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science.Auguste Comte, Philosophie Positive (1830)
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
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.Michel de Montaigne
