Martin Luther King Jr.'s warning in 1964 that moral progress lags far behind scientific and technological progress remains as relevant as ever. | Perspective by Horganism
Wanting to post something to honor Martin Luther King Day, I searched online for commentary by King on science. I found some examples in a terrific 2012 column by science journalist Cara Santa Maria, who quoted King decrying how science had served the causes of white supremacy and slavery. I also discovered King's 1964 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance lecture, in which he dwells on the gap between our scientific and moral progress.
"Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
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