Biology Quote by E. O. Wilson

The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this.…

— H. Bentley Glass

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.

— Arthur C. Clarke

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.

— Noam Chomsky

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind…

— Milan Kundera

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“biology is usually called upon to justify a society based on selfish principles, but we should never forget that it has also produced the…

— Frans de Waal

“The scientists call it human nature; which is just a fancy term for the God-given flaws we have no intention of giving back.”

— Amor Towles

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy:…

— Milan Kundera

In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.

— Semir Zeki

“Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.”

— Steven Magee

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success.…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr