Quotes About Ethics

Once again, claims of moral superiority are used to justify extreme actions. Once again, the fact that some people are hurt is shrugged off because an abstract cause is said to be greater than any human consequences. Once

You know what's wrong with scientific power?" Malcolm said. "It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are. It never fails." Hammond

it was the hardest damn thing I ever did in my life. I don't care how many feathers a man wears in his hair, he's still a man. One of them, Red Legs, looked at me and said 'do you think this is fair? Would you sign such a paper?' and I could not meet his eyes. It made me sick.

Algunos analistas de medios de comunicación han advertido que en los informativos de hoy en día no se comprueba nada de nada. Se redacta la noticia y se busca una nueva, afirma un periodista. Otro colega ha opinado, a condición de que no se revele su identidad: Hay que reconocer que era una notición. Si se hubiera comprobado, no habría habido noticia.

In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates.

These Americans played with fire. Hydrogen bombs, megapower lasers, killer drones, shrunken micro-people…Americans were demon-raisers. Americans awakened technological demons they couldn't control, yet they seemed to enjoy the power.

Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to build it. Science can make pesticide, but cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways—air, and water, and land—because of ungovernable science.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other. Its practitioners aren't saints, they're human beings, and they do what human beings do—lie, cheat, steal from one another, sue, hide data, fake data, overstate their own importance, and denigrate opposing views unfairly. That's human nature. It isn't going to change.

Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton

A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special. And that is the kind of power that science fosters, and permits....

Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such considerations as pointless. If they don't do it, someone else will. Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.

Largely through science, billions of us live in one small world, densely packed and intercommunicating. But science cannot help us decide what to do with that world, or how to live. Science can make a nuclear reactor, but it cannot tell us not to use it. And our world starts to seem polluted in fundamental ways--air, and water, and land--because of ungovernable science.

Malcolm: A karate master does not kill people with his bare hands. He does not lose his temper and kill his wife. The person who kills is the person who has no discipline, no restraint, and who has purchased his power in the form of a Saturday night special.

The exploitations he had found so profitable he now attacked with the money he had made from them. He

There are many people, including myself, who are quite queasy about the consequences of this technology for the future. —K. Eric Drexler, 1992

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Elliot was accused of being a "Nazi criminal" engaged in the "torture of dumb [sic] animals.

Would you make products to help mankind, to fight illness and disease? Dear me, no. That's a terrible idea. A very poor use of technology. - John Hammond

You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenially rich people are.

You create many [dinosaurs] in a very short time, never learn anything about them, yet you expect them to do your bidding, because you made them and you therefore think you own them; you forget that they are alive, they have an intelligence of their own, and they may not do your bidding, and you forget how little you know about them....

But—as history has proven time and again—in the hands of human beings, increasing power is increasingly dangerous.

En el mundo moderno se considera más grave matar a un tigre que a tus padres. Los tigres tienen abogados.

Beauty is a whore. I prefer money.