Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom, As

The Most Remarkable Discovery Made By Scientists Is Science Itself. The Discovery Must Be Compared In Importance With The Invention Of Cave-painting And Of Writing. Like These Earlier Human Creations, Science Is An Attempt To Control Our Surroundings By Entering Into Them And Understanding Them From Inside. And Like Them, Science Has Surely Made A Critical Step In Human Development Which Cannot Be Reversed. We Cannot Conceive A Future Society Without Science.

The Force That Makes The Winter Grow Its Feathered Hexagons Of Snow , And Drives The Bee To Match At Home Their Calculated Honeycomb, Is Abacus And Rose Combined. An Icy Sweetness Fills My Mind , A Sense That Under Thing And Wing Lies, Taut Yet Living , Coiled, The Spring .

Science Has Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Even In The Ruins Of Nagasaki. The Shame Is Theirs Who Appeal To Other Values Than The Human Imaginative Values Which Science Has Evolved.

No Science Is Immune To The Infection Of Politics And The Corruption Of Power. ... The Time Has Come To Consider How We Might Bring About A Separation, As Complete As Possible, Between Science And Government In All Countries. I Call This The Disestablishment Of Science, In The Same Sense In Which The Churches Have Been Disestablished And Have Become Independent Of The State.

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom, As Originality Is The Mark Of Independence Of Mind. … No One Can Be A Scientist … If He Does Not Have Independence Of Observation And Of Thought.