Quotes About Morality

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Garrett Hardin. Parenthood: Right or Privilege? Science Magazine.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Science is not inherently good.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

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

Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

We cannot but think there is something like a fallacy in Mr. Buckle's theory that the advance of mankind is necessarily in the direction of science, and not in that of morals.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

A man of logic is a man of sin.

As for peace, it was never free and laws were made to be broken. Peacemaker or lawbreaker, someone, somewhere always paid the price no matter what side of the words they were on.

I come from a place where everyone has great power, by your standards, and they steadfastly refuse to use it for self-aggrandizement ... anywhere ... ever.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.