Vera Rubin Quotes

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

There is no sin but ignorance.

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

Connect liberty with knowledge and both with morality.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

A good physician goes to be helpful where there is most sickness. So a good philosopher should be where there is most stupidity

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

It is of no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.