The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert HubbardThere is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.
David BaltimoreThe exciting about science and discovery, as much as how far we have come, is how far we still have to go. If we know what we do now, then the future truly is ours.
Linda GodwinGovernment is merely an attempt to express the conscience of everybody, the average conscience of the nation, in the rules that everybody is commanded to obey. That is all it is.
Woodrow WilsonThe great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact (Collected Essays)
Thomas HuxleyWe live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Carl SaganOne thinks of French philosophy that it aspires to the condition of literature or the condition of art, and that English and American philosophy aspires to the condition of science. French philosophy, one thinks of as picking up an idea and running with it, posibility into a nearby brick wall or over a local cliff, or something like that.
Ted HonderichI cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
Lillian HellmanThe 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 LippmannImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovScience is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Sir Arthur EddingtonWe cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.
Karl Wilhelm Von HumboldtThe popularity of the paranormal, oddly enough, might even be grounds for encouragement. I think that the appetite for mystery, the enthusiasm for that which we do not understand, is healthy and to be fostered. It is the same appetite which drives the best of true science, and it is an appetite which true science is best qualified to satisfy
Richard DawkinsScience 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 CrichtonConscience is merely our own judgment of the moral rectitude or turpitude of our own actions
John LockeScience knows only one commandment - contribute to science.
Bertolt BrechtConscience that isn't hitched up to common sense is a mighty dangerous thing.
Margaret DelandConscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
Samuel ButlerA man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William FaulknerWe put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew NeilHe's very, very keen that what happens is that science be judged on the basis of evidence not prejudice [on Tony Blair]
Lord FalconerIt 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 OpikWhile bright-eyed science watches round
Thomas GrayI think there should be something in science called the 'reindeer effect.' I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, 'Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.'
Jack HandyDespotic conscience rules our hopes and fears
OvidI almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
Thomas Love PeacockScience fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Isaac AsimovIn science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
Sir Francis DarwinI couldn't kill him. I couldn't live with that on my conscience [on letting a burglar go]
Ozzy OsbourneArchaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
Jim BishopSociety lives by faith, and develops by science.
Henri-Frederic AmielThe credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheConscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Henry L MenckenEthical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science.
Daniel DennettAlthough on the one hand none of what I do is psychic, equally, in the same breath, it is not hard science either.
Derren BrownThe 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 MacklinMan is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
Jacob BronowskiThe man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
B C ForbesAll religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
Albert EinsteinGods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.
Chapman CohenAdvances 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 BishopPornography 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 BaudrillardScientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium, a benefit
Marie CurieScience is a kind of glorified tailoring enterprise, a method for taking measurements that describe something — reality — that may not be understood at all.
Michael CrichtonNobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Edmund HillaryAs long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalise and legitimise these distinctions.
Elizabeth FeeI am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.
Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharThere is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.
Isaac AsimovEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
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