You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

(Reply on what constitutes scientific proof:)"The question is much too difficult for me.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.

No scientist thinks in formulae.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.