Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.
Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.
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