Quotes About Responsibility

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a large extent out of my own sense of irresponsibility.

We must care to think about the unthinkable things, because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

Science that fails to embrace all living beings is far more dangerous than any virus!

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

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.

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence, no matter what the circumstances.

A good friend is someone who gets ya drunk and then walks ya home afterwards.