Science Quotes

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
Herbert spence - science is organized knowledge....
Art is I; science is we.
Claude Bernard
The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks.
Johann von Goethe
Taylo - conscience in most men, is but the anticipation...
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
Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self - Destroying.
Arthur C. Clarke
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
Jacob Bronowski, 1976
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteu
Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - A thing which can never be demonstrated.
Tyron Edwards
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William E. Channing
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein
Humor the sons of the poor, for they give science its splendor.
The Talmud
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
P. L. Berge
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
Erich Fromm
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Henry Louis Mencken
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.
Author 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
Guilt resembles a sword with two edges. On the one hand, it cuts for Justice, imposing practical morality upon those who fear it. But there is another side to that weighted emotion. Conscience does not always adhere to rational judgment. Guilt is always a self - Imposed burden, but it is not always rightly imposed.
R. A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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
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
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
Stanislaw I. Leszczynski
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Robert Anson Heinlein