For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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

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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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

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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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

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