Quote by Joseph Rotblat
But the first the general public learned about the discovery was t

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. – Joseph Rotblat

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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. – Joseph Rotblat

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At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly. – Joseph Rotblat

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The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics. – J.T. Fraser, Time, the Familiar Stronger, 1987

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But in science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. – Francis Darwin

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In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it. – Phillip E. Johnson

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