The Evolution of Ethics

Image via WikipediaThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. – Aldous Leonard Huxley




Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. – Oscar Wilde



Always do right. This will surprise some people and astonish the rest. – Mark Twain



The best way to keep your word is not to give it. – Napolean Bonaparte



Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so. – Friedrich Hebbel



The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings. – Albert Schweitzer



The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. – Oscar Wilde

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The Most Petrifying of Medusas

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Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause. – Mary Baker Eddy




Art is I; Science is We. – Claude Bernard



Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. – Alan Valentine



Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Henry Huxley



Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. – Albert Einstein



Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yeilds impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. – Aldous Leonard Huxley

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Do Ignored Facts still Exist?

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Don’t look for a fifth foot of a cat. – Spanish proverb




Never cut when you can untie. – Joseph Joubert



He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. – John Ruskin



An ant hole may collapse an embankment. – Japanese proverb



Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life. – John Lubbock



The greatest American superstition is belief in facts. - Hermann Keyserling



Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. – Aldous Leonard Huxley

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