Character Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.

— Leon Kass

There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject…

— Sam Harris

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and…

— Hans Eysenck

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

— Steven Pinker

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

— Bill Condon

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

— Marcello Truzzi

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep…

— Sam Harris

“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

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and…

— Robert Winston

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

— Anonymous

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

— Edgar Friedenberg