Quotes About Ethics

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 must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

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

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.

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?'

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

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.

We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.

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

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.

Science can give us power over nature, but it cannot give us power over human nature.

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

Science is the true theology.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science leads you to killing people.

It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

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.

There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this applies to the physical as well as the biological sciences.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.