The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
quote by Daniel Dennett
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Ethical Rape
Everywhere I look, there's an ethical rape.
Churches come first
Bend and fall at the hands
Of their angry oppressors
Sacred sacraments
Are grabbed from behind
Dragged into the alley
And torn to pieces
Bleeding bloody visceral
Carnage all around
The glistening rull of science
Dominates the skyline
All values are dead
No one cares like they used to
Everything's gone
Everything's become
Ethical rape.
poem by Leon Agnew
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I believe that we as the leader of the Free World must provide important leadership on the ethical parameters, the ethical constraints that this research requires.
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
quote by David Chalmers
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The American people expect public servants to be able to police themselves. But instead of designing a system to enforce ethical conduct, Tom Delay and his cohorts have implemented a self protection system. Obviously, it wasn't good for democracy.
quote by Chris Bell
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And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical.
quote by Jane Mayer
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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
quote by Omar N. Bradley
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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art than science, if, that is, unity is to be preserved in the work generally.
quote by Friedrich Schleiermacher
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson in Discovery (1964)
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side.
quote by Francis Parker Yockey
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Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
quote by Albert Einstein
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We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human experimentation in clinical trials, as Nazi researchers did.
quote by Paul Nitze
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
quote by Orson Welles
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We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
quote by Arthur Keith
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The fundamental problem is that there's no credibility in the judicial system, which is a system that's been completely politicized. This is retaliation and selective repression.
quote by Leopoldo Lopez
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Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus which is the business of politics. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
quote by Timothy R. Minnich
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One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.
quote by Henri Poincare
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We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions.
quote by Whitfield Diffie
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In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.
quote by Jerry Pournelle
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
quote by William James
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