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- It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
- A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
- Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
- Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls this adventure Science.
- Edward Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954
- Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981), The Story of Philosophy, 1926
- Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Out of My Later Years, 1936
- That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinent answer.
- Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, 1973
- Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinion of others.
- Sir Henry Taylor
- In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
- Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop III
- In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.
- P. L. Berger
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