It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.
The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.
But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?
We're not protecting the environment for the sake of the fishes and the birds. We're protecting it for our own sake.
...the proposed air force and army experiments were designed so that many animals would suffer and die without any certainty that this suffering and death would save a single human life or benefit humans in any way at all; but the same can be said of millions of their experiments performed each year in the United States alone.
I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.
In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is completely at odds with the current secular idealization of nature. This secular view posits that nature has its own intrinsic meaning and purpose, independent of man.
I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
All government—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.
The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.
I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.
I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
I believe the power to make money is a gift from God...to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind.
In fact, anyone who merits attention and who promotes any cause at all is doing so on the basis of a belief that it is somehow good for humans, because of their inherent nature.
You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
The Knowledge of Nature tends to enlarge the human Mind, and give us more noble, more grand, and exalted Ideas of the Author of Nature, and if well pursu'd, seldom fails producing something useful to Man.
I truly hope that we can evolve with technology, and use it for the benefit of all mankind, but history might suggest otherwise.
Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind.
Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.
I do something to make things nature never made but which is useful to humans.
