As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Superior science without strong morals leads to instability and self-destruction.
- In plain terms
- Great science with bad morals is unstable and harmful.
- What can you take from it?
- Science needs ethics to be safe.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you balance progress and ethics?
- Who oversees scientific power?
Another view
Some argue science should remain neutral.
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