Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.John Charles Polanyi
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
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