Quotes About Ethics

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

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.

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.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

There is real confusion about what it means to be right and wrong - the difference between what spiritual beliefs are and what science is.

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

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

For science is ... like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.

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

You like science? You enjoy science? Always use it for good, never for evil. Can you promise me that?

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

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

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.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

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.

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.