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Science Quotes - random


Edwin Hubble | Science Quotes
Science is the one human activity that is totally progressive.
Wislawa Szymborska
On this third planet from the sun
among the signs of bestiality
a clear conscience is Number One.
Bertrand Russell
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.




Paul Valery
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists.
Emile Zola | Science Quotes
He was a moment in the conscience of Man.
Halldor Laxness
A man's conscience is an unsteady judge of right and wrong.
Benjamin Disraeli
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
H. G. Wells (Herbert George)
Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction.
Vera Rubin
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
Thomas Samuel Kuhn | Science Quotes
Only when they must choose between competing theories do scientists behave like philosophers.




Robertson Davies
Now, very few [physicians] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.
James Richardson
That others know: science. That others choose: politics.
Christopher Monckton
The point is, these [oil spill] accidents will happen. As we scientists say, s--t happens.
H. L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Mary McCarthy | Science Quotes
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
Paul Karl Feyerabend
Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.
Albert Schweitzer
The good conscience is an invention of the devil.
Joe Hill
I die with a clear conscience, I die fighting, not like a coward.
Thomas Fuller (preacher)
One that will not plead that cause wherein his tongue must be confuted by his conscience.


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