Quotes About Morality

I sometimes hear preachers speak of the sad condition of men who live without God in the world, but a scientist who lives without God in the world seems to me worse off than ordinary men.

Sadness is a state of sin.

But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

There are people in the world that believe in God and those who don't. I wonder how the ones without God can live.

I remember the stink of corruption. It had a kind of sweetness to it, a sweetness that'd make you want to hurl.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Science leads you to killing people.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

It is now clear that science is incapable of ordering life. A life is ordered by values.

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.