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“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.”

Wells Long Law Science Quality Moral Study Limits Ethics Accounts Ethical Laws Of Nature Biological Science

Author:Ernst Boris Chain

“Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.”

World Mind Matter Faces Science Values Moral Knowledge Mystery Accounts Constant Endeavor Reverence Face To Face Moral Values Value Of Life Knowledge Of The World Mind And Matter

Book:Where is science going?

Source: Where is science going?

“In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.”

War Whole Three Moral Materials Accounts Factors Relative Quarters

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Following Him is walking in the light and not in darkness. Man on account of sin is in moral and spiritual darkness. Believing on Christ and following Him delivers from both. In His fellowship the believer is delivered from the power of darkness, from the power of sin and from ignorance as to spiritual things.”

Men Believe Light Christian Spiritual Christ Sin Moral Darkness Ignorance Walking Accounts Following Believer Fellowship Spiritual Darkness

Author:Arno C. Gaebelein

“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”

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Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.”

Trying Moral Accounts

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any one 'method of ethics'; he made this important move on behalf of everybody and just on its own account; and I think it plausible to suggest that this move on the part of Sidgwick explains the difference between old-fashioned Utilitarianism and the consequentialism, as I name it, which marks him and every English academic moral philosopher since him.”

Source: Human Life, Action and Ethics: Essays by G.E.M. Anscombe

“I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us into a very special sort of animal, an animal that can be a moral agent in a way that no other animal can be.”

Thinking Way Turns Culture Animal Moral Special Accounts Species Agents

Author:Daniel Dennett

“A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.”

“Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.”

Heart Reality Fiction Moral Intellectual Accounts Terror Triumph Apathy Transformed Laziness Reign Testament Ruined Reminders Visa Timely Avalon Reign Of Terror Intellectual Laziness

Author:Azar Nafisi

“State censorship presents itself as a bulwark between society and forces of subversion or moral corruption. To dismiss this account of its own motives by the state as insincere would be a mistake: it is a feature of the paranoid logic of the censoring mentality that virtue ... must be innocent, and therefore, unless protected, vulnerable to the wiles of vice.”

“Making the truth public is a form of justice. This is a moral universe and you've got to take account of the fact that truth and lies and goodness and evil are things that matter.”

Matter Facts Form Lying Universe Evil Justice Moral Goodness Accounts Things That Matter Truth And Lies

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity.”

Giving May Said Reason Certain Fall Religious Moral Divine Accounts Restriction Taboo Prohibition Abstinence Ordinances

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“I am certainly open to the idea that this might be used to explain other philosophical categories besides knowledge. I have some real sympathy with the work of those moral realists who have tried to give naturalistic accounts of human flourishing, and who offer accounts of right action in such terms. (I suppose this is more evidence that I really do have deep affinities with Aristotle!)”

Giving Humans Ideas Real Might Action Used Term Moral Offers Evidence Accounts Philosophical Categories Realist Flourishing Affinity Right Action

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

Source: Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic

“People are continually pointing out to me the wretchedness of white people in order to console me for the wretchedness of blacks. But an itemized account of the American failure does not console me and it should not console anyone else. That hundreds of thousands of white people are living, in effect, no better than the "niggers" is not a fact to be regarded with complacency. The social and moral bankruptcy suggested by this fact is of the bitterest, most terrifying kind.”

People Should Kind Doe Facts Order Social White Moral Effects Accounts Pointing Complacency Console Bankruptcy Wretchedness

Author:James A. Baldwin

“For the first time in her life Granny wondered whether there might be something important in all these books people were setting store by these days, although she was opposed to books on strict moral grounds, since she had heard that many of them were written by dead people and therefore it stood to reason reading them would be as bad as necromancy. Among the many things in the infinitely varied universe with which Granny did not hold was talking to dead people, who by all accounts had enough troubles of their own.”

“Science is a magnificent force, but it is not a teacher of morals. It can perfect machinery, but it adds no moral restraints to protect society from the misuse of the machine. It can also build gigantic intellectual ships, but it constructs no moral rudders for the control of storm tossed human vessel. It not only fails to supply the spiritual element needed but some of its unproven hypotheses rob the ship of its compass and thus endangers its cargo.”

Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution

“If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action.”

Ifs Kind Reason Government Action Moral Weakness Capitalism Accounts Socialism Rejects Laissez Faire Fallibility

Book:Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and twelve other essays and addresses

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”

Self Science Process Moral Morality Prove Ethics Accounts Species Superiors Combination Destroying Inferiors Unstable

Book:Voices from the Sky

Source: Voices from the Sky

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.”

Ifs Giving Doe Use Science Differences Moral Accounts Dimensions Knives Murderer Surgeons

Author:Wernher von Braun

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

Christian Science Force Moral Greater Accounts Controlled Antichrist

Author:Charles Lindbergh

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