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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
Science exists moreover only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Today Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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 never gives up searching for truth since it never claims to have achieved it.
It is this at its most basic that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's 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.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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.