Science Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara Tuchman

Someone has described science as an orderly arrangement of what, at the moment, seems to be facts.

Author Unknown

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Hippocrates, Law

Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.

General Omar Bradley

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

The Religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small.

Emil Wiechert

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

William Shakespeare

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Isaac Asimov

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom is a clear conscience.

Periande

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

George Sewell

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

French Prove

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

Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

Stanislaw I. Leszczynski

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead his eyes are closed.

Albert Einstein

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.

Gary Zukav, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters".

If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.

Richard Phillips Feynman

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit - - Enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

Eric Anderson

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

Engineering is the art or science of making practical.

Samuel C. Florman

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

Ashley Montague

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]

Be the master of your will and the slave of your conscience.

Hasidic Saying

Science is the only true guide in life.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them.

Rudolf Virchow

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.

Marguerite de Valois

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.

Richard Feynman

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

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

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