Andrew Solomon Quotes

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

One of the reasons I admire David Lindsay-Abaire's work is that he, like the Greeks I've spent so much of my professional life contemplating, is not afraid of taking on the big stuff - huge, human, moral issues - what do we owe to those we love?

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

We wrestle with the political issues of who has stewardship over life.

Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy.

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

Science has radically changed the conditions of human life on earth. It has expanded our knowledge and our power, but not our capacity to use them with wisdom.

I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives.

Their fate rested entirely on me. I could save them by telling the truth. I could destroy them by lying. No one should have that much power.

I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Good is that which promotes life, evil is that which destroys life

With great power comes great responsibilty.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

The next great task of science is to create a religion for humanity.

I think no matter what, science can provide a force for good, fundamentally. Over time, like all things, it's open to abuse.

Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.