Science Quotes

All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation.
Bertrand Russell
Ivan pavlov - what can i wish to the youth of my country who...
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science.
Albert Einstein
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
Norman o. brown - in its famous paradox, the equation of money and...
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".
Before a war, military science seems a real science, like astronomy. After a war it seems more like astrology.
Dame Rebecca West
The conscience of a people is their power.
John Dryden
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
One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
Author Unknown
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
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.
Immanuel Kant, The Science of Right
I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.
William Shakespeare
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 has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
Charles William Stubbs
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well - Defined meaning.
H. A. Kramers
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
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
Conscience is a mother - In - Law whose visit never ends.
H. L. Mencken
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
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.
Mark Twain
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
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
Origen
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Arthur C. Clarke
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 Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism".
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Michel de Montaigne
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)