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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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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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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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