Roger Penrose Quotes

I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

Ethical and legal are not synonyms. ;

I have no objection to the twist as such, but it does represent some kind of change of our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty, decency, and morality?

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The good is the beautiful.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

There can be no fundamental distinction between what is morally right and what is politically right.

We are now facing a problem more of ethics than of physics.

Morals, not Art or Literature.

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.

A movement without a vision is a movement without moral foundation.

In politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

The ends do not justify the means. The means are the ends.