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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"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."
"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."
"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
"Scientists have found the gene for shyness. They would have found it years ago, but it was hiding behind a couple of other genes."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"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."
"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"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."
"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."
"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"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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