“Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.”
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
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.
