Biology Quote by Auguste Comte

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

— Auguste Comte

We can't simply do our science and not worry about the ethical issues.

— Bill Joy

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes…

— Allen W. Wood

I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.

— Frans de Waal

We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate…

— John B. S. Haldane

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman

We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I am very comfortable with the idea that we can override biology with free will.

— Richard Dawkins

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject…

— Sam Harris

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our…

— Kenan Malik

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon