Luke Scott 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.

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.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Any powerful technology can be abused.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

Science has taught us how to put the atom to work. But to make it work for good instead of for evil lies in the domain dealing with the principles of human duty. We are now facing a problem more of ethics than physics.

We talk a lot about building benevolent technology. Our technology reflects our values.

Science, engineering, and technology discovers and invents new ways of doing things - but it doesn't dictate how we should do them.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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.

We ought to be looking at business as a force for good.

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

In medicine, or in science, you go down a path and it turns out to be a dead end, you really made a contribution, because we know we don’t have to go down that path again. In the press, they call it failure. And so people are unwilling to innovate, unwilling to take risks in government …

We are all the beneficiaries of those who have gone before us.

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

The United States needs to be a leader in scientific research.

I am very pro-science.

Science, science is great. I love science. With any luck, it'll save us all.

I believe this artificial intelligence is going to be our partner. If we misuse it, it will be a risk. If we use it right, it can be our partner.

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

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.