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" 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. "

John Charles Polanyi

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Science

Values

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Searching

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" Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. "

" 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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" Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. "