Quotes About Ethics

Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgment...In short, positive economics is or can be an "objective" science.

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

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

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

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.

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.

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

Moral certainty is never more than probability.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

Morality is the Science of harmonious relations between intelligent beings.

unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.

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.

The training one receives when one becomes a technician, like a data scientist - we get trained in mathematics or computer science or statistics - is entirely separated from a discussion of ethics.

It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.

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

Science is not inherently good.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for.

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