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.

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.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

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.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.