"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."
-John Charles Polanyi
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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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"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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