Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
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.
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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.
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
Science, it seemed, held the key to an age of ease and plenty, and for many that proved to be the case. But for still more, it did not.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
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