Quotes about science

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."

Weinberg, Steven on science   

"Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on science   

"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

Asimov, Isaac on science
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"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."

Asimov, Isaac on science
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"Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century."

Ballard, J. G. on science   

"Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful."

Dick, Philip K. on science   

"The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers."

Didion, Joan on science   

"In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something of the humiliation of being stuck on a provincial planet in a galactic backwater has stayed with me ever since."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on science   

"What the hell is nostalgia doing in a science-fiction film? With the whole universe and all the future to play in, Lucas took his marvelous toys and crawled under the fringed cloth on the parlor table, back into a nice safe hide hole, along with Flash Gordon and the Cowardly Lion and Luke Skywalker and the Flying Aces and the Hitler Jugend. If there's a message there, I don't think I want to hear it."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on science   

"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on science   

"Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident."

Hoffer, Eric on science   

"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time."

Lessing, Doris on science   

"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."

Sontag, Susan on science   

"I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on science   

"A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without."

Addison, Joseph on science   

"A good conscience is a continual feast."

Bacon, Francis on science   

"Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape."

Bancroft, George on science   

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

Beerbohm, Sir Max on science   

"Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Billings, Josh on science   

"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of on science   

"The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on science   

"What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on science   

"The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on science   

"Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it."

Butler, Samuel on science   

"No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!"

Byron, Lord on science   

"It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great."

Channing, William Ellery on science   

"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do -- but it does not keep him from doing it."

Clark, Frank A. on science   

"If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?"

Confucius on science
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"When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?"

Connolly, Cyril on science   

"Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart."

Cook, Joseph on science   

"The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow."

Cowper, William on science   

"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"

Dante Alighieri on science   

"Honor is the moral conscience of the great."

D'Avenant on science   

"Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire."

Dudevant, Madame on science   

"Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."

Eliot, George on science   

"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience."

Euripides on science
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"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream."

Faulkner, William on science   

"Conscience -- the only incorruptible thing about us."

Fielding, Henry on science