"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.“

-John Charles Polanyi

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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."

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"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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"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."

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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."

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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."

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