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“Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.”

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…

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In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

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

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[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is…

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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch…

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At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their…

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

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

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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds a rung to a ladder of knowledge whose end is not in sight because we are building the ladder as we go along. As far as I can tell, as we assemble and ascend this ladder,…

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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

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We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up…

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That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly. The entire web of culture and "progress," everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man's refusal to bow…

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When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds…

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Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky

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“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum in Concepción, Chile. These skulls were originally discovered on Isla Mocha, which is located 25 miles off the south-central coast of Chile. Since some of them have definite telltale signs of being Polynesian, the strong suggestion…

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