Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
Interpretation
Ethical truths are discovered through experience, similar to scientific truths.
This quote by Albert Einstein suggests that the foundation of ethics, much like scientific principles, is established through empirical evidence and real-world experiences. It indicates that truths in ethics are not merely abstract ideas, but are validated by their applicability and the outcomes they produce in life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a debate about moral philosophy to emphasize the importance of practical experience in ethical discussions.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
May both of them [Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II] teach us not to be scandalized by the wounds of Christ and to enter ever more deeply into the mystery of divine mercy, which always hopes and always forgives, because it always loves.
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes.
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.
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