Abstract Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Science is fundamentally a moral enterprise, following the moral imperative to seek the truth.

— George Lakoff

“Science lacks something very important that religion provides: a moral code. Survival of the fittest is a scientific fact, but it is a cruel…

— A.G. Riddle

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

— Anonymous

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

— Albert Einstein

Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore,…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact…

— Sigmund Freud

I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its…

— Albert Einstein

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

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

— Bill Condon

Science, as long as it limits itself to the descriptive study of the laws of nature, has no moral or ethical quality and this…

— Ernst Boris Chain

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