Quotes for: science

Quotes for: science

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.
François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel

Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul.

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Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.
Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation

Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the Universe), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth.
Galileo Galilei

There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education

Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.
François Fénelon

Of all the human sciences, the science of man is the most worthy.
Nicolas Malebranche - The Search after Truth

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A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
Paul Valéry

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ethics is in truth the easiest of all sciences.
Arthur Schopenhauer

From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
Émile Zola

Experience by itself is not science.
Edmund Husserl

Philosophy is true mother of the arts.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
Gaston Bachelard

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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities—perhaps the only one — in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.
Karl Popper

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
Richard Phillips Feynman

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Art is science made clear.
Jean Cocteau - Le Coq et l’Arlequin

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.
Johannes Kepler

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.
André Breton

Science does not think and cannot think; indeed, that is what constitutes its chance, that which secures its own way of proceeding.
Martin Heidegger

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas Hobbes

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Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell

Science is nothing but perception.
Plato

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To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein