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"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."
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"Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before."
"The frontier orbital approach was further developed in various directions by my own group and many other scientists, both theoretical and experimental."
"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."
"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."
"NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits."
"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."
"I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"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."
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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