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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."
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"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
"It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion."
"Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that."
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"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."
"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
"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."
"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."
"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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