Brain Quote by Lucille Kallen

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

— Steven Pinker

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 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

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

— Mario Bunge

There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of…

— Howard Moskowitz

Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will…

— Wernher von Braun

Science cannot stop while ethics catches up ... and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.

— Elvin C. Stakman

“If science could make a person understand the true significance of morality in human existence, - and more importantly, if science could enable a…

— Abhijit Naskar

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great…

— Alan Alda

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

— Bill Condon

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

— George Lakoff

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