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Even In The World Of Molecules The Civilising Influence Of Modest Restraints Is A Cause For Rejoicing.

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.

Individual Scientists Like Myself - And Many More Conspicuous - Pointed To The Dangers Of Radioactive Fallout Over Canada If We Were To Launch Nuclear Weapons To Intercept Incoming Bombers.

I Knew, However, That It Would Cost Ten Times What I Had Available In Order To Build A Molecular Beam Machine. I Decided To Follow A Byway, Rather Than The Highway. It Is A Procedure I Have Subsequently Recommended To Beginning Scientists In This Country, Where Research Strategy Is Best Modelled On That Used By Wolfe At The Plains Of Abraham.

The Respect For Human Rights, Essential If We Are To Use Technology Wisely, Is Not Something Alien That Must Be Grafted Onto Science. On The Contrary, It Is Integral To Science, As Also To Scholarship In General.