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.
John Charles Polanyi
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- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
- Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
- Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
- Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.