Quotes about science

"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."

Foucault, Michel on science
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"If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed."

Francis of Assisi, St. on science   

"I feel bad that I don't feel worse."

Frayn, Michael on science
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"Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."

Freud, Sigmund on science   

"Conscience is a man's compass."

Gogh, Vincent Van on science   

"In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on science   

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

Hellman, Lillian on science
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"A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous."

Hobbes, Thomas on science   

"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."

Horton, Doug on science   

"People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid."

James, Henry on science   

"Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be humored, conscience would permit, rather ungraciously perhaps, the indulgence of a number of carefully selected desires."

Joad, C. E. M. on science   

"Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within."

Kant, Immanuel on science   

"A conscience without God is like a court without a judge."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on science   

"Conscience is the sentinel of virtue."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on science   

"Conscience: self-esteem with a halo."

Layton, Irving on science
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Lee, Harper on science
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"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."

Lippmann, Walter on science   

"A seared conscience is one whose warning voice has been suppressed and perverted habitually, so that eventually instead of serving as a guide, it only confirms the person in his premeditatedly evil course."

Little, Robert J. on science   

"Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows."

Lucretius on science   

"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."

Mencken, H. L. on science   

"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."

Mencken, H. L. on science   

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

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley on science   

"My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight."

Myles, Allanah on science   

"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."

Nash, Ogden on science   

"There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all."

Nash, Ogden on science
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"Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on science   

"Conscience is the chamber of justice."

Origen on science   

"Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience."

Pascal, Blaise on science   

"Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law."

Phelps, Arthur on science   

"Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stops barking."

Proverb on science   

"He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes."

Proverb, Chinese on science
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"A clear conscience is a soft pillow."

Proverb, German on science   

"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage."

Quincey, Thomas De on science   

"Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on science   

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

Rowland, Helen on science   

"Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience."

Santayana, George on science   

"Conscience does make cowards of us all."

Shakespeare, William on science   

"My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, and every tongue brings in a several tale, and every tale condemns me for a villain."

Shakespeare, William on science   

"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on science   

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on science