The greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is
recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it
has been built.
—Herbert Samuel, 1947
It is time that science, having destroyed the religious basis for morality, accepted the
obligation to provide a new and rational basis for human behavior - a code of ethics
concerned with man’s needs on earth, not his rewards in heaven.
—Barney Oliver, 1972
Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot
supply.
—William Osler, 1904
Who - aside from certain big children who are indeed found in the natural sciences - still
believes that the findings of astronomy, biology, physics, or chemistry could teach us
anything about the meaning of the world?
—Max Weber, 1922
We have to deal with […] moral phenomena as products of evolution.
—Herbert Spencer, 1897
It doesn’t trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.
—Jerry Coyne, 2015
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I am sorry I could not trace this novel line of scientific/ethical inquiry at earnest in this small
collection.
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