Prince Charles Quotes

There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

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

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Imagine if we had stopped science in 1904. Yes, there would have been no nerve gas and no Bhopal, but there would also have been no penicillin. All science is a trade-off.

The question I want to put forward is, 'Does the technology we are developing ultimately benefit mankind?'

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

The recklessness with which we sacrifice our sense of decency to maximize profit in the factory farming process sets a pattern for cruelty to our own kind.

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

You do not settle whether an argument is justified by merely showing that it is of some use. The distinction is not between useful and useless experiments but between barbarous and civilized behaviour. Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

One might be led to question whether the scientists acted wisely in presenting the statesmen of the world with this appalling problem. Actually there was no choice. Once basic knowledge is acquired, any attempt at preventing its fruition would be as futile as hoping to stop the earth from revolving around the sun.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog

The best that can be said about embryonic stem cell research is that it is scientific exploration into the potential benefits of killing human beings.

… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.

A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.