Research ethics, scientific development and nowadays needs: A reflection to the complex thinking

Introduction: The objective of this article is to expose the necessity of ethics applied to the future and the importance of complex thinking in research practice. Methodology: The methodology implied was based on documentary research, and the technique was documentary analysis supported by analytic summaries. Results: The results showed the existence of ethics, always in the present time, in the scientific exercise, and the presence of a research subject alienated from their discoveries and its multiple uses. Conclusions: The document conclusion shows the need of desacralizing the scientific knowledge to allow its articulation with another kind of understanding and the emergence of complex thinking. Due to that, the ethics' momentum is generated facing the future, the same that combines the discovered impetus with the knowledge adventure, life’s care, and the development of a new kind of civility.