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- Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
- Budd Schulberg
- Art is I; science is we.
- Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
- Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- Of course, the person I was fleeing most fearfully was myself, for I drive, and I'm burning a collapsed barn behind the house next week because it is much the cheapest way to deal with it, and I live on about four hundred times the money that Thoreau conclusively proved was enough, so I've done my share to take this independent, eternal world and turn it into a science fair project.
- Bill McKibbon, "The End of Nature"
- Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- A philosopher once said 'It is necessary for the very existence of science that the same conditions always produce the same results'. Well, they do not. You set up the circumstances, with the same conditions every time, and you cannot predict behind which hole you will see the electron.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..."
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock (1869 - 1944)
- Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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