Quotes About Responsibility

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have, the world proclaimeth; and what faults they commit, the earth covereth.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.

Know, Nature's children all divide her care, The fur that warms a monarch warmed a bear.

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

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

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

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

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

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

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.