Polykarp Kusch Quotes

Everything is fraught with danger. 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.

When the goals of science collide with moral and ethical judgment, there are certain times when science has to take a time-out.

Right is what you should do, wrong is what you really want to do.

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.

I don't think anyone sets out to do something bad, it's just that it's very difficult.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

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

There are lots of things that science will enable us to do that we shouldn’t do.

The powers of science are morally neutral — as easily used for bad purposes as good ones. In the excitement of discovery, we must never forget that mankind is defined not by intelligence alone, but by conscience. Even the most noble ends do not justify every means.

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

Morality is like a field of flowers beneath which the corpses are piled in a thousand layers. It is an evolved mechanism whereby the human organism proceeds through life sustained on every side by bonds of mutual interest.

In the information age, you can study all you want and discover the past in order to rediscover the future.

I can understand why people are bad.

Humans are possessed, to some degree, with the power of foresight. Yet we so often learn things the hard way, through disaster.

We are all human, and we do bad things sometimes.

There will be good and bad, right and wrong. Your reaction of choice, good or bad, has consequences that affect you and those around you.

I believe in people. Human beings, deep down, are essentially good. Any jury can filter through whatever bull might be thrown their way and use common sense to get to the truth of a case. Juries make the right decisions, almost unfailingly, because people know right from wrong.

We are not only responsible for what we do but also for what we do not do.