Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
"The Scientific Revolution and the Machine"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)
“Ethics is the most vital and important of all sciences. It has both its theoretical and applied aspects. Its mission is nothing less than the establishment of harmony among the inhabitants of the earth and the transformation of world-wide contention into peace and happiness.”
Source: Ethics and Education (1912), Contents of Ethics, pp. 56–57
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La critique souvent n'est pas une science; c'est un métier, où il faut plus de santé que d'esprit, plus de travail que de capacité, plus d'habitude que de génie. Si elle vient d'un homme qui ait moins de discernement que de lecture, et qu'elle s'exerce sur de certains chapitres, elle corrompt et les lecteurs et l'écrivain.
Aphorism 63
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“The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force.”
Felix Adler (1851–1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The ethical element of religion has ever been its truly vital and quickening force. It is this which lends such majesty to the speeches of the Prophets, which gives such ineffable power and sweetness to the words of Jesus. Has this ethical element become less important in our age? Has the need of accentuating it become less imperative?
To-day, in the estimation of many, science and art are taking the place of religion. But science and art alike are inadequate to build up character and to furnish binding rules of conduct.
We need also a clearer understanding of applied ethics, a better insight into the specific duties of life, a finer and a surer moral tact.
“The moral aspect of oil nationalization is more important than its economic aspect.”
Mohammad Mosaddegh (1882–1967) Prime Minister of Iran
John Percival (1863–1949) British agricultural botanist
[The Wheat Plant: A Monograph, 1921, London, Duckworth & Co, 3, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t56d5r310&view=1up&seq=21]
Marilyn vos Savant (1946) US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer
As quoted in The Reader's Digest (1992) Vol. 140, p. 194
“A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object.”
Umberto Eco book Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
[O] : Introduction, 0.8
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)
Context: A general semiotics studies the whole of the human signifying activity — languages — and languages are what constitutes human beings as such, that is, as semiotic animals. It studies and describes languages through languages. By studying the human signifying activity it influences its course. A general semiotics transforms, for the very fact of its theoretical claim, its own object.
“The real task is not to rid life of ethics but to rid ethics of its ideological content.”
John Carroll (1944) Australian professor and author
Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace (1974), p. 38