Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
John Charles Polanyi
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
people science experience
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.
people science
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
truth science
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
theend science
society science
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.
system science language
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
science
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.
rights technology absence science
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
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.
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
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