Biology Quote by Richard J. Maybury

“It is wrong to equate scientific laws, as a human construct, with the absolute truth.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up the rules…

— Douglas Adams

“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, the stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it…

— Aldo Leopold

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

— Julian Baggini

“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific…

— Brian Cox

“For though the law of nature be plain and intelligible to all rational creatures; yet men, being biased by their interest, as well as…

— John Locke

“law of nature that our scientific thinking tends toward the truth, our morality toward the good, and maybe (though he doesn’t go this far)…

— Roger Scruton

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view,…

— Sam Harris

[Science] dissipates errors born of ignorance about our true relations with nature, errors the more damaging in that the social order should rest only…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That's perfectly alright; it's the aperture to finding out what's right. Science is a self-correcting…

— Carl Sagan

“Nature doesn't tell you what's wrong. It only let's you know what's right.”

— Dan Skinner

“Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.”

— Aldous Huxley