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“Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.”

Ifs Men World Life Might Science Deals Training Conscience Be Good Profession Pursue Engineering Exactness Exact Sciences

Book:Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920

Source: Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920

“The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction-that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist-and before any science there is first of all belief. For me, it is belief in a complete lawfulness in everything that happens.”

Firsts Ends Happens Science Belief Highest Conscience Court Conviction Physicist Lawfulness

Author:Max Planck

“Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.”

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Book:Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Our humanity is trapped by moral adolescents. We have too many men of science, too few men of God. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom and power without conscience.”

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Author:Omar N. Bradley

“Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.”

“According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhi's, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.”

Source: Jimmy Carter

“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war.”

“Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.”

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Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.”

Source: War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945

“The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”

Kind Important Facts Hands Law Science Purpose Process Knowledge Mankind Conscience Ideals Tasks Accounts Prejudice Aspiration Preconceptions

Book:The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

Source: The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

“Conscience is wiser than science.”

Wisdom Science Conscience Accounts Wiser

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.”

Men May Country Science Mistake Comedy Land Conscience Details Fanatics Forlorn One Mistake Neanderthals

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Science without conscience is the soul's perdition.”

Soul Science Conscience Perdition

Author:Francois Rabelais

“A satellite has no conscience.”

Science Conscience Satellites

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Those individuals who give moral considerations a much greater weight than considerations of expediency represent a comparatively small minority, five percent of the people perhaps. But, In spite of their numerical inferiority, they play a major role in our society because theirs is the voice of the conscience of society.”

People Giving Play Science Individual Voice Moral Roles Five Greater Majors Percent Conscience Weight Spite Consideration Minorities Our Society Inferiority Expediency

Author:Leo Szilard