"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
-John Charles Polanyi
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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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"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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"Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century."
-Bertrand Russell
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
-Albert Einstein
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"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness."
-Charles Darwin
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
-Jacob Bronowski
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"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."
-Robert Green Ingersoll
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