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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
- Delight
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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.
- Dignity
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
- Facts
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
- Reality
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
- Experience
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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.
- Must
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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
- Assessment
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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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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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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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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
- Canada
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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
- Fallout
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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
- Die
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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
- Government
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Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
- Science
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
- Commitment
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What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
- Freedom
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
- Journey
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
- Community
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The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
- Constitute
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
- Over
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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
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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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