Quotes About Dilemma

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?'

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

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

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

To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.

The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

Science shows us what exists but not what to do about it.

Truth or dare...truth ain't fair. Marshal Robert Quantrell - Belle Starr: Dead Man's Hand (work in progress)

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.

Postmodernity means the exhilarating freedom to pursue anything, yet mind-boggling uncertainty as to what is worth pursuing and in the name of what one should pursue it.

Circular reasoning is infallible even if not exactly logical, and this is why so many of us so often resort to it—not so much to resolve baffling problems, but to be absolved of the obligation to worry about them.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

Iliad's subject is not war or its wickedness but a crisis in how to be.

Stealing is good, honest work, Said the theif, puffing out his chest. Well, not honest, strictly speaking, he admitted after a moment. Or actually good.

The thing about you, her mother used to say, is that you never act out of character. You have no originality. But Nigora knew this was not true. Because she was going to act out of character, She was going (thought Nigora) to be herself. And yet: how could she? How could she?

Are we going to do this?" "We have to." "We don't have to. We could go to the police." "They'll kill her if we go to the police. The woman who has her is a monster. I heard it in her voice. We're the worst parents in America. You know those people who overdose in the front seats of their cars? We're dumber than that.