 What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. |
| Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. |
| If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. |
| The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. |
| Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. |
| The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. |
| 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. |
| Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. |
| Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. |
| In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. |
| 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. |
| Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. |
