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"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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"Life can only be experienced."
"Sooner or later I will be faced with the fact that the world is helpless to meet my needs. And at that point, I will be left with two conclusions; that life is cruel or God is real."
"To live a fantasy is to avoid a life."
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"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"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."
"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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