"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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"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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