The great question for our time is, how to make sure that the continuing scientific revolution brings benefits to everybody rather than widening the gap between rich and poor. To lift up poor countries, and poor people in rich countries, from poverty, to give them a chance of a decent life, technology is not enough. Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

In the little town of Princeton where I live, we have more than twenty churches and at least one synagogue, providing different forms of worship and belief for…

Scientists and business leaders who care about social justice should join forces with environmental and religious organizations to give political clout to ethi…

Trouble arises when either science or religion claims universal jurisdiction, when either religious dogma or scientific dogma claims to be infallible. Religiou…

I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science has given us more li…

A nation which does not practice science, such a nation, one must admit has no place in the high road of civilization.

Scientific and technological progress themselves are value-neutral. They are just very good at doing what they do. If you want to do selfish, greedy, intoleran…