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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."
"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."
"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
"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."
"However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"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."
"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"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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