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I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it.
Nelson Mandela

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

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov

Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be - and the non-necessity of it.
Thomas Hardy

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

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

Conscience and wealth are not always neighbours
Philip Massinger

Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely Carmichael

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard

It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of beings.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Cheerfulness is full of significance; it suggests good health, a clear conscience, and a soul at peace with all human nature
Charles Kingsley

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified.
Ambrose Bierce

Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science.
Daniel Dennett

Rome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
Thomas Huxley

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

I wrote somewhere during the Cold War that I sometimes wish the Iron Curtain were much taller than it is, so that you could see whether the development of science with no communication was parallel on the two sides.
Thomas Gold

This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly. (Science for the Citizen)
Lancelot Hogben

Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.
Michael Crichton

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

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma Gandhi

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

Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

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

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

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the 'know-nothings', the 'know-alls', and the 'no-contests'.
Richard Dawkins

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

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart
Walter J Lippmann

Life is a mission. Every other definition of life is false, and leads all who accept it astray. Religion, science, philosophy, though still at variance upon many points, all agree in this, that every existence is an aim.
Giuseppe Mazzini

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yeer face while it picks yeer pocket: and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
Charles Macklin

Sport went hand in hand with science.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Modesty is the conscience of the body.
Honore De Balzac

My father worked hard in the Uzbek judicial system and my mother was a wonderful human being. These people could not have brought up what one European politician called a gangster and racketeer. I will leave that one to his conscience
Alisher Usmanov

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
Hippocrates

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.
Julie Bishop

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual
Galileo Galilei

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

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

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

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Oscar Wilde

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
David Baltimore

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



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