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"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
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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."
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"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."
"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."
"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."
"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."
"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."
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