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.
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.
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