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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert Einstein

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.
Edward Teller

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
Ethan Allen

Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
Richard Feynman

Pornography is the quadraphonics of sex. It adds a third and fourth track to the sexual act. It is the hallucination of detail that rules. Science has already habituated us to this microscopics, this excess of the real in its microscopic detail, this voyeurism of exactitude.
Jean Baudrillard

I submit that the traditional definition of psychiatry, which is still vogue, places it alongside such things as alchemy and astrology, and commits it to the category of pseudo-science.
Thomas Szasz

The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
Margaret Mead

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustav Flaubert

They might have to redefine the term rocket science.
Clive Everton

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.
William Hurt

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin

Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science.
Daniel Dennett

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
Mary Baker Eddy

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.
George Eliot

Society lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri-Frederic Amiel

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.
Thomas Huxley

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love Peacock

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
Doug Larson

Art is meant to disturb, science reassures.
Georges Braque

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
Jacob Bronowski

'The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.'
Harper Lee

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to whom the idea first occurs.
Francis Darwin

A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh...
Lembit Opik

Science knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt Brecht

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian Hellman

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
Saint Ambrose

The worst punishment of all is, that in the court of his own conscience no guilty man is acquitted
Juvenal

The conscience of the dying belies their life.
Luc De Vauvanargues

Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.
Jean De La Bruyere

Common sense is science exactly so far as it fulfils the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are or at any rate without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment
Thomas Huxley

To will what God doth will, that is the only science
That gives us any rest
Francois De Malherbe

Sport went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

All science is either physics or stamp collecting
Ernest Rutherford

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'
Erwin Chargaff

What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
Helen Rowland

There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are sciences and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.
Louis Pasteur

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the moral rectitude or turpitude of our own actions
John Locke

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbours
Philip Massinger

From the level of pragmatic, everyday knowledge to modern natural science, the knowledge of nature derives from man's primary coming to grips with nature; at the same time it reacts back upon the system of social labour and stimulates its development.
Jurgen Habermas

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.
Sydney Smith

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.
Mary Wortley Montagu

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form
Albert Einstein

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Joseph Cook

Philosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac Disraeli

Hitting is an art, but not an exact science.
Rod Carew

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Henry L Mencken

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: 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

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one
Konrad Lorenz



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