Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
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