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Science Quotes - random


Bertrand Russell | Science Quotes
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
William Whewell
In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.




Georg Buchner
A good man with a good conscience doesn’t walk so fast.
Martin Firrell
Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.
Thomas Love Peacock | Science Quotes
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Claude Bernard
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Brian Aldiss
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
Henry David Thoreau
Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.
Simon Soloveychik
A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.
William Whewell | Science Quotes
Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.




Fritz Leiber
A scientist ought to have a healthy disregard for coincidences.
Matthew Arnold
The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.
Jose Saramago
Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.
Donald Knuth
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.
Linus Pauling
Linus Pauling undoubtedly stands as one of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century.
Oscar Wilde
Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
E. M. Forster
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
Even if I am dismissed, I can only act as a Christian, as my conscience tells me.


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