Above all we should not forget that government is an evil a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property liberty of conscience and of the press it will be worth defending.

While all other sciences have advanced that of government is at a standstill - little better understood little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

By definition a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy but nothing more.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Therefore the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

All credibility all good conscience all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations of arts and of sciences.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I do not believe in God his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp I learned to believe in men.

Conscience is God present in man.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand I can do no other so help me God. Amen.

This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Blade Runner appears regularly two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry defense transportation agriculture health care and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

When a scientist is ahead of his times it is often through misunderstanding of current rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day from some perspective appear prophetic.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher which is to solve the problem of value to determine the true hierarchy of values.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.