Quotes about science

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

— Michael Frayn

Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.

— Sigmund Freud

Conscience is a man's compass.

— Vincent Van Gogh

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.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Doug Horton

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.

— Henry James

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.

— C. E. M. Joad

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.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Alphonse De Lamartine

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

— Irving Layton

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

— Harper Lee

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.

— Walter Lippmann

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.

— Robert J. Little

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

— Lucretius

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— H. L. Mencken

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

— Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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

— Allanah Myles

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

— Ogden Nash

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.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

— Origen

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

— Blaise Pascal

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.

— Arthur Phelps

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

— Proverb

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

— Chinese Proverb

A clear conscience is a soft pillow.

— German Proverb

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

— Thomas De Quincey

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

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

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

— Helen Rowland

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

— George Santayana

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Logan Pearsall Smith

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

— Sophocles

The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

— Germaine De Stael

Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.

— Jeremy Taylor

A bad conscience has a very good memory

— Source Unknown

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won t.

— Source Unknown

A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

— Source Unknown

One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.

— Source Unknown

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

— Izaak Walton

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

— George Washington

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

— Thomas S. Kuhn

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

— Carl Sagan

The object of science is the universal that contains many particulars; the object of art is the particular that contains the universal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

— Isaac Asimov

Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space.

— Dejan Stojanovic

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.

— Ogden Nash

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

— Albert Einstein

Conscience does make cowards of us all.

— William Shakespeare

Faith is a fine invention when Gentleman can see -- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency

— Emily Dickinson