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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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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.

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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.

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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

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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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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: January 23rd, 1929

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