“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”
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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.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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.
