Science And Morality Quotes

“Love is the supreme religion, love is the supreme law, love is the supreme science.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“The Islamic moral injunctions influence preferences through moral filtering of the consumption set by identifying the moral ‘bads’. The moral philosophy imbued with socio-ethical spirit extends the decision horizon of consumers. It encourages the transformation of self-centric self-interest into self-cum-social centric self-interest. The moral injunctions explicitly extol virtuous philanthropy. Finally, by flattening all other basis of distinction except on piety, Islamic values garner contentment whereby, the consumer is asked to avoid envious and conspicuous consumption of luxuries.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“Islamic philosophy of life prioritizes equitable distribution over efficiency. Overreliance on efficiency paralyses the equity and ethical concerns of development policy change. While Islamic principles allow freedom and liberty in lawful consumption within the moral boundaries, they induce affirmative action to promote well-being when people possess the means. In contrast, according to consumer sovereignty, as long as people can put up dollar votes for their preferences, resources will be allocated on producing, marketing and distributing inessential goods even if a quarter of the world population lives in poverty and suffers from hunger, malnourishment and curable diseases.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“Rather than complimenting humans in their animalistic instincts to keep having a one-eyed focus on material well-being only, Islam inculcates piousness, kindness, cooperation and communal responsibility in humans. In some instances, Islam guides explicitly to avoid extravagance, lavishness and using certain products and services which harm a human’s ethical existence and well-being either individually and/or harm the society in the process. Islamic economics incorporates ethical values and excludes from the consumption bundle various goods which bring either private loss or welfare loss to the society.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“Islamic philosophy of life brings a long-term perspective to the pursuit of self-interest by informing humans about the positive and negative consequences of their actions and choices in the life hereafter. In the Godless worldview, due to the absence of afterlife accountability, the rich people with absolute and inviolable property rights can command natural and environmental resources whose potential lifespan is much more than the lives of their owners. But, if the rich people believe in no afterlife accountability, they can extract and exploit these resources quickly and deprive future generations of their use.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“Climate change is slow, but a cumulative process. Individual human lifespan is only an infinitesimally small fraction of the life of environmental resources and ecosystem services. Hence, the self- centric and this-worldly view of life is incompatible with the concerns of sustainability and socially responsible behaviour. Rather, the dogmatic commitment to self-centric worldview results in the inevitable proliferation of pollution as a right and product to be bought and sold in the market economy. It is ironic, but inevitable to see measures such as ‘statistical value of life’. On the action and policy front in capitalistic democracies, voter ignorance as well as the public-good nature of any results of political activity tends to create a situation in which maximizing an individual’s private surplus through rent seeking can be at the expense of a lower economic surplus for all consumers and producers.”
― Salman Ahmed Shaikh, Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World

“Humanity without science is fragile, science without humanity is lethal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Science is a super power, but without a humanitarian heart to guide it in the right direction, it always ends up doing more harm than good.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“Energy and Ethics (The Sonnet)

One AA battery lights up a house with an LED,
Or it can be used to set fire to it with a spark.
Energy has no ethical polarity, only potential,
Ethics of energy lie in the hands of its wielder.
Society just needs an excuse to escape the blame,
Sometimes they blame science, other times politics.
The real problem is none but the society itself,
Particularly our age-old selfish histrionics.
No society is born human, not yet anyway,
It falls on the original humans to make it human.
Choose science, faith, politics or civil service,
Touch of a human makes medicine even out of poison.
Science doesn't define the scientist, scientist defines the science.
Hence I'm a servant scientist who uses science for deliverance.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work

“When somebody uses nuclear weapon to cause destruction, it's the fault of the individual. But, when an individual uses scripture as justification for their atrocities, it's the fault of an entire community. How come!

I am not condoning religious violence, any more than I am condoning “scientific violence”, such as, nuclear proliferation, big pharma exploitation, big tech recklessness, and so on. All I am asking is that, sensible people see sense, putting aside their prejudicial inclinations for a second.

We all know about the atrocities committed by organized religion. But if we are not cautious, we will end up doing the same with science, deluded by our grandeur of intellect, and pomposity of technology.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Religion that doesn't bring oneness,
Is not religion, but the original sin.
Science that doesn't lift human condition,
Is not science but superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“Science that doesn't lift human condition, is not science but superstition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love

“My theology is not rooted in God, but in people. My philosophy is not rooted in knowledge, but in people. My science is not rooted in reason, but in people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“To hell with truth, I say! Better lose truth, than lose your humanity. Better lose truth, than lose love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“What is Science? Science means Sapient Conscientious Investigation of Eternity with No Compromise on Empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Stay Behind (The Sonnet)

While mine owners' kids are packing,
Their mittens to colonize Mars,
How about you stay behind,
To give light as an earthly human star!
I am not here to teach you how to code,
I am here to show you why code.
I am not here to teach you science,
But to humanize the scientific road.
Okay if they don't know the role of science,
You for one, don't walk in their dirtsteps.
You are wise, brave, and above all, human,
Be the practitioner of humanitarian science.
Science is superpower, always use it wisely.
Little science does much harm if used recklessly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Science is Service (The Sonnet)

Extraordinary technology brings extraordinary recklessness,
Because the human mind hasn't matured like technology has.
We may have developed technology that defies human limits,
Evolutionary predispositions of the mind haven't disappeared.
That's why I say, bigger the power the smaller the mind.
For a wielder without backbone, silicon is but plaything.
Even an ounce of science can do unimaginable harm.
To fathom it you gotta step out of the glare most blinding.
Science 'n society go together, can't have one without the other.
Where there is love for science, there is love for society.
If this simple thing doesn't penetrate the skull of us thickies.
We would be better off without all the scientific glory.
Science is an act of service in the course of lifting all humanity.
Science without accountability is no different from a conspiracy theory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Science without accountability is no different from a conspiracy theory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Science 'n society go together, can't have one without the other. Where there is love for science, there is love for society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Take morality out of science and all you've left is one big conspiracy theory.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“I am not here to teach you science, I am here to point out how to use science humanely.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Where there is love for science, there is love for society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“SCIENCE means Sapient Conscientious Investigation of Eternity with No Compromise on Empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Science is service - if you don't get this, you are not a scientist, but a glorified con-artist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Science is service.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“Science is not a love of knowledge,
Science is love of the light of knowledge.
Light of knowledge doesn't allow inhumanity,
Even if it's peddled in the benefit of knowledge.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science

“SCIENCE means Sapient, Conscientious, Infinite Exploration, Never Compromising Empathy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“Morally speaking, the fathers of the hydrogen bomb had nothing to do with the latter. They were cracking not ethics, not culture, not our soul, but a scientific and technological problem.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“This was however NOT the scientist’s responsibility. Morally speaking, the fathers of the hydrogen bomb had nothing to do with the latter. They were cracking not ethics, not culture, not our soul, but a scientific and technological problem.”
― Romain Gary

“I am not a STEM advocate,
I am the STEM humanizer.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn