Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
~ John Charles Polanyi
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.
