Character Quote by Thomas Jefferson

He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

— Nikita Khrushchev

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child…

— Albert Einstein

“But the scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation. The future, to him, is every whit as necessary and determined as the…

— 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

“He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling…

— Margaret Atwood

“Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of…

— Henry Miller

A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

Armed with all the powers, enjoying all the wealth they owe to science, our societies are still trying to practice and to teach systems…

— Jacques Monod

“He’d have been a little bit happier if there’d been a demon or some sort of magic. Something simple and understandable. He didn’t like…

— Terry Pratchett

Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche