Biology Quote by Gregory Bateson

The upshot is that most philosophers of biology now hold that biological properties supervene on physical properties (where supervenience is taken to include some…

— Elliott Sober

There are no objective values.

— J. L. Mackie

Values are good things only if they are good values.

— Michael Josephson

The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Nothing in science has any value if it is not communicated.

— Anne Roe

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

— Sam Harris

What is false in the science of facts may be true in the science of values.

— George Santayana

There's something that intervenes and is very important which has to do with value. Value in the true biological sense, which is that contrary…

— Antonio Damasio

Any concept of biology is not only sterile and profitless, it is distorted and untrue, if it puts its primary focus on unnatural conditions…

— Rachel Carson

Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.

— Albert Einstein

As human beings, our only sensible scale of values is one based on lessening the agony of existence.

— H. P. Lovecraft

And Nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost.

— Kate Chopin