Science is facts.
Henri Poincare
A hit show takes Hollywood magic indeed, but it also takes a lot of math and science, plus the study of polls and trends to make and sell a TV show.
Kristoffer Polaha
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for... →
John Charles Polanyi
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
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... →
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... →