Mary Warnock Quotes

A collection of quotes by Mary Warnock.

Mary Warnock is a renowned British philosopher and ethicist, born on April 14, 1924. As a prominent figure in the field of bioethics, she has made significant contributions to public policy and moral philosophy. Warnock chaired a government commission that published the influential Warnock Report on human fertilization and embryology in 1984. She has authored numerous books exploring topics such as moral reasoning, education, and medical ethics. Her work often reflects a strong commitment to social justice, highlighting the ethical challenges posed by science and technology. Mary Warnock was made a life peer in 1985 and served in the House of Lords until her retirement in 2015.

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we s

Without imagination, we merely see or hear, and even if we see or hear that the objects of the senses are beautiful, we cannot feel that they are so. The difference is this: in feeling the beauty of objects, we enjoy not only the common, shared pleasures of the senses, but also the private pleasures of the imagination, peculiar to ourselves, and such that we have to struggle to articulate them.

Mary Warnock

Imagination Beauty