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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.


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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.



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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.



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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.



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.

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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Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.



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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.



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Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.



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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.



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