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Becoming a vegetarian is not merely a symbolic gesture. Nor is it an attempt to isolate oneself from the ugly realities of…
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The problem is not with the athletes, but with us. No matter how blatant the drug use may be, we don't stop…
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We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of…
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I would like us to think about it more explicitly, and not take our intuitions as the given of ethics, but rather…
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If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. No matter what the…
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Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not…
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People tend to care about dogs because they generally have more experience with dogs as companions; but other animals are as capable…
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There has been opposition to experimenting on animals for a long time. This opposition has made little headway because experimenters, backed by…
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It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used…
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As for cages themselves, an ordinary citizen who kept dogs in similar conditions for their entire lives would risk prosecution for cruelty.…
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With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail…
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...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have…
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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so…
— Karl Jaspers
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The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
— Unknown Author
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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of…
— Joseph J. Romm
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At this point in history when all things which concern man and the structure and elements of history itself are suddenly revealed…
— Karl Mannheim
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As the vice-regents of God, we are to bring His truth and His … dominion … over our neighborhoods, our schools, our…
— D. James Kennedy
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The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
— Stephen Vizinczey
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All our scientific and philosophic ideals are altars to unknown gods.
— William James
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The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception.…
— Alex Grey
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The real problem is that through our scientific genius we’ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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