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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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"It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet."
"The best trees produce the sweetest fruits."
"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."
"Personal relationship with God is the main condition for quality in life."
"The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
"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."
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
"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."
"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
"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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