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"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."
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"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"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."
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
"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."
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"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely."
"In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue."
"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."
"Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic."
"Society lives by faith, and develops by science."
"Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into."
"I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science."
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