Science Quotes

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Rebecca west - before a war military science seems a real...
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Albert Einstein
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman Cohen, (1868 - 1954)
Sir francis darwin, eugenics review, april 1914 - in science the credit goes to the man who...
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.
Pope Pius XI
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.
Michael Talbot
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Louis Pasteu
It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.
William E. Channing
Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order.
Albert Einstein
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Michel de Montaigne
Almost all reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
Thomas H. Huxley
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.
Robert K. Merton
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream.
Erich Fromm
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up - - And nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
Elvin Stackman
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
Science is the only true guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - Except when they are different.
Nancy Banks - Smith
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowlege: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Charles Darwin
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest sceintists are always artists as well.
Albert Einstein
Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade - Name of the firm.
Oscar Wilde
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
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
Henry Louis Mencken
Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
Marguerite de Valois
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
John Owen
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
Carl Friedrich Gauss, from Sartorius von Waltershausen, "Gauss zum Gedachtniss" [1856]
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?
William Punshon