Science Quotes
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.Charles William Stubbs
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
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.Doug Larson
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.Immanuel Kant
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.Albert Szent - Gyorgyi
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutory pleasure in proving their falseness.Charles Robert Darwin
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
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
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.Albert Einstein
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.John Milton
Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.Taylo
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.Thomas Love Peacock
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.Helen Kelle
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
In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil
Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?William Punshon
The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.Johnson
Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.Bernard Berenson
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.Unknown
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.Noam Chomsky, in a television interview
The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.Thomas Huxley
In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - - That the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.Norman O. Brown
Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.Budd Schulberg
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.Peter Borden
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits.Carl Sagan
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
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
Engineering is the professional and systematic application of science to the efficient utilization of natural resources to produce wealth.T. J. Hoover and J. C. L. Fish, 1941