Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

  • -- Heinz Pagels 亨氏寻呼

科学不能解决道德冲突,但它可以帮助更准确地构建关于这些冲突的辩论框架。

相关名言

I believe without exception that theory follows practice. Whenever there is a conflict between theory and practice, theory is wrong. As far as I'm concerned, we make theories for what people have done.

我毫无例外地相信理论遵循实践。当理论和实践发生冲突时,理论就是错误的。就我而言,我们为人们所做的事情做理论。

I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

那时我在学校没有被欺负。我有一群朋友,我被孤立了,因为我没有和我的父母交流。我没有告诉他们我所经历的一切。

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

人类学家是连接诗人和科学家的纽带;尽管他们在原始民族中的野外工作常常使他们忘记了科学的语言。

[T]he true is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as the right is only the expedient in the way of our thinking.

真理只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计,正如权利只是我们思维方式中的权宜之计一样。

Good people don't need laws to tell them to act responsibly and bad people will find a way around the laws.

好人不需要法律来告诉他们要负责任,坏人会找到绕过法律的方法。

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

我们只是虚伪、表里不一、矛盾;我们对自己既隐藏又伪装。