"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."
-John Charles Polanyi
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"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."
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"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."
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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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"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
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