Ethics And Science Quotes

“Educated on the streets, enlightened in the soil, my role on earth is to inject the brains with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Focus on ethical AI, rather than smarter AI.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“The insights we can get from this unprecedented access to data can be a great thing: we can get new understanding about how our society works, and improve public health, municipal services, and consumer products. But as individuals, we aren’t just the recipients of the fruits of this data analysis: we are the data, and it is being used to make decisions about us—sometimes very consequential decisions.”
― Michael Kearns, The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

“We don't need AI in every gadget, we don't need CRISPR in every baby. We don't need to abandon tech and live in caves, but that's what will happen if we keep using tech haphazardly.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“We don't need AI in every gadget, we don't need CRISPR in every baby.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“By the time I'm finished with science, science would be more service centered than religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Ending inequality must be the first priority of innovation, not a performative afterthought.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Medicine is the most potent form of miracle, but when medicine prioritizes money over care, people flock to quacks and influencers. When science fails in service, people look up to the stars for answers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, science can produce solar panels or greenhouse gases. I'm not a scientist, I'm a humanitarian scientist, science doesn't make me human, I make science human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, With Love From A Blue Rock

“Character Before Science (Sonnet 2905)

Science doesn't make someone a better person,
if it did, no physicist would help develop
nuclear weapons, or no biologist would
help develop biological weapons.

Science, like religion, follows the command of power,
given enough incentive 99% of the world's scientists
would gladly help wipe out half the world's population -
many have done exactly that in the past, and many continue
to do so in algorithm factories and defense industries.

Which is why, it means nothing to be a scientist,
what's needed is that a good person becomes scientist,
otherwise a scientist is of as much use to the world
as a politician, just like faith is only
as good as the person practicing it.

Quality of a person does not depend on faith,
but quality of faith depends on the person.
Character of a scientist does not depend on science,
but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Character of a scientist does not depend on science, but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Quality of a person does not depend on faith,
but quality of faith depends on the person.
Character of a scientist does not depend on science,
but character of science depends on the scientist.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Science doesn't make someone a better person, if it did, no physicist would help develop nuclear weapons, or no biologist would help develop biological weapons. Science, like religion, follows the command of power, given enough incentive 99% of the world's scientists would gladly help wipe out half the world's population. Which is why, what's needed is that a good person becomes scientist, otherwise a scientist is of as much use to the world as a politician.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Anybody can inspire the youth to become scientists, any trustfund white guy or even chatgpt can do that, the point of Naskar is to ignite Servant Scientists, because if a scientist does not burn with the fire of service, they are no better than religious fanatics.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“The Missing Vector (Naskaristana 2908-2909)

Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers,
religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps.

Bigger than science, bigger than religion,
I'm the missing vector of the equation -
without me your sciences are just spare parts,
and your religions are just dead habits.

I'm the link between matter and mind,
I'm the life between the lines -
I'm the spark that breathes sapiens into slime,
I'm the safe space nestled in time.

I don't make wine out of water,
water is already wine when
you share it with the thirsty -

nor do I walk on water,
for I am the water,
and I take the shape of whichever
community I stand amongst.

STEM counts for nothing,
until you add the prefix of H -
without that H, it's just more dogma,
educated dogma, but dogma no less,

because guess what - Humanity's greatest
atrocities were all caused by educated people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“STEM counts for nothing, until you add the prefix of H - without that H, it's just more dogma, educated dogma, but dogma no less, because guess what - Humanity's greatest atrocities were all caused by educated people.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“When science fails service, conspiracy festers. When faith fails service, fanaticism festers.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Intelligence without compassion is more dangerous than ignorance with power.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Unrestrained science is a hundred times more dangerous than blind faith.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs! What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Aşkoholic/Amorholic, 3112-3114
(Divine, Ethics and STEM)

All my youth I've done science,
now let me stay drunk, don't wake me up,
let me drift into my final slumber,
smoking, blazing, smoldering with love.

Prose I know not, nor do I know poetry,
I know no pslam, I know no surah -
you keep your cute rhyme and meter,
your cruel equations and dead dogma,
let me go rack and ruin -
costume, custom, all be cinder.

Substantially advanced spirituality
is indistinguishable from science,
and substantially advanced science
is indistinguishable from spirituality.

What good is science that can't refuse to make bombs!
What good is faith that can't refuse to hate!

Almost every scientist rejects pseudoscience
most vehemently, yet when it comes to warfare
very few seem to have the backbone to denounce it -

a sufficiently advanced scientist
eventually refuses to indulge in warfare,
not advanced in years or intellect,
but advanced in accountability,
and a truly holy person eventually
refuses to convert people.

In the garden of love the gardener is the flower,
STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter.
I am the equation, solved by neither faith nor intellect -
spin of my particles unsung by LHC,
essence of my being unspliced by CRISPR.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“STEM without ethics is fanaticism with glitter.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“You keep your cute rhyme and meter,
your cruel equations and dead dogma,
let me go rack and ruin -
costume, custom, all be cinder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Almost every scientist rejects pseudoscience most vehemently, yet when it comes to warfare very few seem to have the backbone to denounce it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“I want scientists with character, not just a militant mouth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tierra Carta: Naskar Charter of Earth

“Rationalism has its use, but when devoid of empathy it's as useless as blind faith. Try telling a starving child, hunger is illusion; try telling a refugee, safety is delusion; philosophy detached from life is a sign of moral degeneration, not illumination - intelligence detached from empathy is the ultimate delusion.

Or better yet, come close, let me stuff your ugly militant mouth with a handful of scorching hot chili peppers, then let me give you a five hour lecture on the chemistry of H2O and its relation to life, before offering you a glass of water. First compassion, then rationalism; first humanity, then philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Helper first, clever later. Rationalism has its use, but when devoid of empathy it's as useless as blind faith. Try telling a starving child, hunger is illusion; try telling a refugee, safety is delusion; philosophy detached from life is a sign of moral degeneration, not illumination - intelligence detached from empathy is the ultimate delusion.

Or better yet, come close, let me stuff your ugly militant mouth with a handful of scorching hot chili peppers, then let me give you a five hour lecture on the chemistry of H2O and its relation to life, before offering you a glass of water. First compassion, then rationalism; first humanity, then philosophy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human

“Philosophy detached from life is a sign of moral degeneration, not illumination.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşkoholic: Portrait of A Human