Character Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Our moral thinking is much more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth.”

— Jonathan Haidt

“I reviewed five areas of research showing that moral thinking is more like a politician searching for votes than a scientist searching for truth:…

— Jonathan Haidt

“I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.”

— Steven Pinker

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

— Naomi Oreskes

“Intelligence work has one moral law - it is justified by results.”

— John le Carré

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.”

— Steven D. Levitt

“We still don't know how to put morality ahead of politics, science, and economics. We are still incapable of understanding that the only genuine…

— Václav Havel

“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and least sociologically…

— Abhijit Naskar

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is…

— Harmony Korine

“It is better to be a moral ignoramus than an immoral intellectual.”

— Stephan Attia

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

— Louis Kronenberger