History Quotes / ForScience

-->-- ''Series/CriminalMinds'', "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E25ToHell To Hell...]]"/"[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E26AndBack ...and Back]]"

-->-- '''Adam Savage''' often does really weird things in the name of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''

-->-- '''Grant''' of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' goes bungee jumping

-->--'''Doc''', ''Series/FraggleRock''

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', "[[Recap/TheVentureBrosS2E5TwentyYearsToMidnight Twenty Years to Midnight]]"

->''"I was as skilled a healer as Ebrose, but aspired to surpass him. For hundreds of years the men of the Citadel have opened the bodies of the dead, to study the nature of life. I wished to understand the nature of death, so I opened the bodies of the living."''
-->-- '''Qyburn''', ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''

-->-- '''Mike Nelson''', watching ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'', ''Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000TheMovie''

->'''Sally Impossible:''' What could ''possibly'' be more important than your son?!\\

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->That's because to him, the fruits of his own research are everything, far more important than the Organization or the battle in our own country.

->That's the funny thing, I didn't have a reason. I fully understood no matter what I did my life would be ruined. I could either do it with the science or without, and so I chose science to see if I could. When you have the power to do something, it's hard not to try.

->You're desperate to put your mind to use, Ed, to see what you're capable of, to put the world under your fingers. That's the essence of alchemy. You did it for knowledge. Control. Above all, you did it just to prove you can.

->This is for the benefit of all mankind! Science is Justice!! Science is Truth!!

->They thirsted for knowledge. They sought to fulfill their desires. And ultimately, they forgot why they were doing it. Even as they proclaimed their reverence for human life, they began toying with it. And then they began destroying it!

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->'''Doc Samson:''' Sterns, no! Whatever you're doing, stop! [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow These--these are forces we aren't meant to control--]]\\

-->-- ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk #37''

->''"How can you call a few pitiful criminals and ineffectual medical students "people"? How can the worth of their lives be compared to the ceaseless advance of medical science?"''
-->--'''Dr. Seltsam''', ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Castle of the Bat''

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->Then we proceed, blindly, in the noble pursuit of science and knowledge.
-->-- '''Xaldin''', ''{{Fanfic/Those Lacking Spines}}''

'''[=RED=] Demoman:''' [[MadScientist For him it is.]]
-->-- A discussion on why the RED Medic has the BLU Spy's head in his fridge, ''FanFic/WakingNightmares''

->Sharp stopped walking and turned to the scientist. "So what good is this information to us?" he asked with some annoyance.\\
"Well..." Lee paused, "as pure science it's fascinating" he said. "Not everything we do should have a military application surely?" he asked then looked awkward.

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->When ''science'' is on the march, ''nothing'' can stand in its way!

->(''Doc Brown and Marty are hijacking a train'')\\

(''{{beat}} as Doc and Marty look at each other'')\\

-->--''{{Film/Ghostbusters 1984}}''

->Seriously, Betty, you know what this meteor could mean to science. If we find it, and it's real, it could mean a lot. It could mean actual advances in the field of science.

->'''Frank''' (''describing opening the tomb of Anck-es-en-Amon'') ...But when it came time to handle all her clothes and her jewels and her toilet things... Well, when it came time to unwrap the girl herself...\\
'''Helen''' How could you do that?!\\
'''Frank''' (''chipper'') Had to, science you know.

->This was when science didn't have to have any specific ''purpose''.
-->-- '''Mike Nelson''', watching ''Film/ThisIslandEarth'', ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheMovie''

->'''Katherine:''' Don't you understand? This is the greatest discovery since van Leeuwenhoek first looked through a microscope and saw an amoeba!
->'''Bubba:''' Yeah, but he wasn't down there ''with'' the amoebas!
-->'''--Film/FromBeyond'''

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->The fact that it actually seemed a ''credible'' threat nonetheless proved no deterrent to Merrick's burning experimental quest... He was unsteady with trepidation, shivering in the chamber's humid, blasting heat, more apprehensive on this occasion than the first time he had encountered one of these things. Was this because he knew what he was doing was wrong? He couldn't afford to think about that. He had to proceed. There would be no second chances at this, and he ''had'' to know.

->It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology.\\
When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atomic bomb, and then puts its hands over its eyes and says, "MyGodWhatHaveIDone"\\

--> --'''Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin''', ''"The Stalin in the Soul"'' in ''The Language of the Night''

->Scientists are like children told not to look in a particular room... Once their minds are set upon it, nothing will mean so much to them as their desire to uncover whatever is locked to them. No matter how disastrous the possible consequences, they regard their work as paramount, as though the pursuit of science constitutes its own moral imperative... Scientists pride themselves on objectivity, but they cannot be trusted to be objective when it comes to the morality of their own conduct.

-->-- '''Jack Wolcott''' on the Moors, ''Literature/DownAmongTheSticksAndBones''

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'''Sheldon:''' Wh -- exCUUse me, that was not a betrayal, that was an experiment to determine at what concentration food starts tasting... mothy.\\

->'''Crell Moset''': You're a physician. You know there's always a price to pay for the advancement of medical science.\\
'''Doctor''': Sometimes that price is too high! Torture?!\\
'''Moset''': ''Your'' word, not mine. I cured the Fostossa virus, didn't I? So these experiments you say I conducted obviously helped me devise a treatment. Imagine how many lives would have been lost if I hadn't eliminated this disease.\\
'''Doctor''': That doesn't justify using people in laboratory experiments.\\
'''Moset''': As I explained to you, during the Occupation I was forced to improvise. I used what resources I had.\\
'''Doctor''': And ethical considerations, they mean nothing to you?\\
'''Moset''': Ethics are arbitrary. How do you suppose your own database was developed? Hmm? My God, half the medical knowledge acquired on Earth came through experiments on lower animals!\\
'''Doctor''': But not ''people''.\\

-->--''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Nothing Human"

-->-- ''Series/CriminalMinds'', "To Hell..."/"...and Back"

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace "The Underwater Menace"]]

-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani "Time and the Rani"]]

-> I ate a radio for science!
--> '''Adam Savage''' often does really weird things in the name of ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''

->This is the best data EVER!

->'''[[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Roy Martindale:]]''' You must uncover all your powers, see if they can be harnessed.\\
'''[[PsychicPowers Tom]] [[IntrepidReporter Crane:]]''' Now hang on, I'm not a shire horse, you know. Maybe I don't want to be harnessed or uncovered.\\

'''Crane:''' Well yes, but--\\

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->Science brings gifts of convenience\\

Good heavens, what have I done?!

->Once ze rockets are up, who cares vere zey come down?\\
"Zat's not my department," says Wernher von Braun.

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->You might as well have said, "Hey, we just made cancer airborne and contagious. [[BadNewsInAGoodWay You're welcome!]] We're science! We're all about 'coulda,' not 'shoulda.'"

->A snail can travel over a razor blade without cutting itself. Or to put it another way, sometimes scientists get bored.

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-->-- '''Danny Boyle's''' ''[[Theatre/{{Frankenstein2011}} Frankenstein]]''

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->Oh, Pyriss! Though minds concerned with the follies of human existence might see your life as a tragedy, I must maintain my scientific detachment, and see your agonized existence for what it is: My Rosetta stone! Your genetic structure will finally unlock all the secrets of the Devouring Earth to me! The world has no idea what waits for it, but you, you shall be here to see the dawning of a new day for SCIENCE!

->The one thing you have to learn with science is that if you stop to ask yourself if you should do something, you've already lost faith in thinking that you can do it.

->Since when did people start expecting science to be humane? To study the body, you cut it open. To study the mind, you isolate it by crushing the heart. Historically, that's how science has advanced.

->I... was defeated by my drive to become a scientist. I lost the last time, too. I've injected Jenova's cells into my own body! Heee, hee, hee! Here are... Heee, hee, hee! ...[[HumanoidAbomination my]] [[ViralTransformation results]]!!

->You would risk an apocalypse out of ''sheer curiosity!?''

->Look too hard for one thing and you miss everything else. And then, the people around you get hurt in the process. Like [[BigBad Xehanort]]. His single-minded thirst for answers created [[TheHeartless Ansem]]. We all have a little of that curiosity in us... So if we're not careful, any one of us could create an Ansem.

->'''Saïx:''' [Axel] gave you a second lease on life.
->'''Vexen:''' He ripped me away from the one thing I care about. I don't require humanity. Give me my research. [[SubvertedTrope I must see it to fruition]], [[ExactWords no matter the cost]].
-->''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''

-->-- "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI Still Alive]]," ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''

-> [[AC: Okay, look. We've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. [[YouMonster You monster]].]]
-->-- '''[[AIIsACrapshoot [=GLaDOS=]]]''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

->Science isn't about "why," it's about "why not?" Why is so much of our science dangerous? [[WhyDontYouMarryIt Why not marry safe science if you love it so much]]? In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because ''you are fired!'' [[IsThisThingStillOn Not you, test subject, you're doing fine]]. Yes, ''you''. Box. Your stuff. Out the front door. Parking lot. Car. Goodbye.
-->-- '''Cave Johnson''', CEO of Aperature Science, ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

->I'll be honest, we're throwing Science at the wall here to see what sticks. No idea what it'll do.
-->-- '''Cave Johnson''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''

->Next, they tell me [[VideoGame/BlackMesa you people]] are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a [[VideoGame/HalfLife Resonance]] [[PhlebotinumOverload Cascade]]. [[AvertedTrope So, I'm shutting that down before you idiots]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end the world]]. ...A ''resonance cascade'' - [[IdiotBall you're supposed to be scientists]]! [[HypocriticalHumor Use some common sense]].
-->-- '''Black Mesa!Cave Johnson''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC

->Whenever something's done "in the name of science," it always means trouble.

->'''Republic Scientist''': No! We're nothing like you! What we did had meaning, it was for science!\\
'''Operative Bator''': Ah, science - that convenient bastion for the truly amoral.

->I defeated a raccoon! SCIENCE!
-->-- '''M.O.D.O.K.'s''' win quote against Rocket Raccoon, ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVSCapcom3''

->Somewhere between what science can do and what it should do is Kala Kapur.
-->-- Loading screen, ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}}''

->The process was unconscionable, but results are results.
-->--'''Condemned Experiment description''', ''Videogame/SunlessSkies''

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->'''Rahm:''' The Black Tongues are one brotherhood but each of us act independently. Some seek to better the world through [[FunctionalMagic pymary]]; dismantle the woes of humanity! Others [[HumanResources dismantle]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild infants]]...
->'''Iori:''' They should toss that [[MadScientist Delicieu]] out on his ear!
->'''Rahm:''' The day they start policing us is the day I walk.

->'''Dr. Fumiaki:''' ''Plans?'' I don't make plans, I make breakthroughs.
-->-- ''Webcomic/GenocideMan''

->'''Professor Beiser:''' "Why" is outside the domain of science. Science seeks only to answer "how" and "what". If you want answers to "why", go take a philosophy class!
-->-- ''WebComic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'', regarding [[https://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1672 his experiments]] on the topic of [[spoiler:bears with jetpacks]]

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->Empirical data's your only man, when formulating a research plan.\\

of corpses, data points, and trials, but from the top - I'll see for miles!
-->-- a forum signature

->Don't worry, I'm doing it '''FOR SCIENCE!''' and that makes everything okay.

->"Will Relativistic Heavy-ion Colliders Destroy Our Planet?", the rebuttals to which were basically, "Let's turn them on and find out!"

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->[[Film/LoveStory Being a scientist means never having to say you're sorry.]]

->What a fine day... for science!

'''Drederick Tatum:''' No, not at all. Swab away. ... Whoa, whoa, nobody mentioned a beaker.\\

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Bye Bye Nerdie"

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', "Twenty Years to Midnight"

->There's no such thing as a "failed" experiment. There is always '''data'''!
-->'''Entrapta''', ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower''

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->There is no such thing as "Good Knowledge" or "Evil Knowledge". There is only Knowledge. Morality is when you decide not to use it.
-->-- Anonymous

->Science never sacrifices itself. It is always murderous.

->I felt it myself, the glitter of nuclear weapons. It is irresistible if you come to them as a scientist. To feel it’s there in your hands. To release the energy that fuels the stars. To let it do your bidding. And to perform these miracles, to lift a million tons of rock into the sky, it is something that gives people [[DrunkWithPower an illusion of illimitable power,]] and it is in some ways responsible for all our troubles, I would say, this what you might call "technical arrogance" that overcomes people when they see what they can do with their minds.

->Is Science of any value? I think power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing of a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. Once in Hawaii I was taken to see a Buddhist temple. In the temple a man said, "To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell." And so is it with Science.

-->-- '''Jack Wolcott''' on the Moors, ''[[Literature/WaywardChildren Down Among the Sticks and Bones]]''

->[[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/midori_no_hibi/v03/c024/15.html This is for the benefit of all mankind!]] Science is Justice!! Science is Truth!!

'''Crane:''' Well yes, but-\\

->'''Republic Scientist''': No! We're nothing like you! [[NotSoDifferent What we did had meaning]], it was for science!\\

'''Sheldon:''' Wh - exCUUse me, that was not a betrayal, that was an experiment to determine at what concentration food starts tasting... mothy.\\

'''Moset''': It's convenient to draw a line between higher and lower species, isn't it?

->'''Crell Moset:''' "Ethics" are arbitrary. How do you suppose your own database was developed, hmm? My God, half the medical knowledge acquired on Earth came through experiments on lower animals!\\
'''Doctor:''' But not ''people!''\\
'''Moset:''' It's convenient to draw a line between [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope higher and lower species]], isn't it?\\
'''Doctor:''' This is the 24th century, Crell. Your kind of barbarism ended a long time ago. Or at least, it ''should'' have!
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Nothing Human"

'''Doctor''': Sometimes that price is too high! Torture?!\\'''Moset''': ''Your'' word, not mine. I cured the Fostossa virus, didn't I? So these experiments you say I conducted obviously helped me devise a treatment. Imagine how many lives would have been lost if I hadn't eliminated this disease.\\

'''The Leader:''' Oh, Leonard. That's why controlling them is so much ''fun.''\\

->'''Iori:''' They should toss that [[spoiler:Delicieu]] out on his ear!

'''[[PsychicPowers Tom Crane:]]''' Now hang on, I'm not a shire horse, you know. Maybe I don't want to be harnessed or uncovered.\\

->Next, they tell me [[VideoGame/BlackMesa you people]] are conducting some anomalous materials research that could result in a [[VideoGame/HalfLife Resonance]] [[PhlebotinumOverload Cascade]]. [[AvertedTrope So, I'm shutting that down before you idiots]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt end the world]]. ...A ''resonance cascade'' - [[IdiotBall you're supposed to be scientists]]! Use some common sense.

'''[[PsychicPowers Tom Crane:]]''' Now hang on, I'm not a shire-horse, you know. Maybe I don't want to be harnessed or uncovered.\\