Quotes About Values

Secular humanism is avowedly non-religious. It is a eupraxsophy (good practical wisdom), which draws its basic principles and ethical values from science, ethics, and philosophy.

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.

Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.

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.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

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

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

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

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

Most economics that is taught in college and universities today projects itself as a value-neutral science. This claim has always been open to question, but I think it's especially in doubt today.

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

Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

This director could say many things about duty, and self-respect, and dignity, but she knew none of these meant much in the post-modern world.

Sovereignty unconditionally belongs neither to the people of the nation nor to some supernatural power but to the human mind, to the science and to the high ethical values!

We are all born to love people and use things. Unfortunately, we grow to love things and use people...

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

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

I just can't smile at people for money.

Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.

.theres much more important things..