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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.
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
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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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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
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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.
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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.
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