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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
"A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"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."
"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience."
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
"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."
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