Words to guide us

Here is a sampling of what several authors have written about the attractions of science and responsibilities of scientists.

Jacob Bronowski

“This is why, at bottom, the society of scientists is more important than their discoveries. What science has to teach us here is not its techniques but its spirit: the irresistible need to explore.”

James Killian

“Whether they be specialists or not, but especially if they are to be specialists, we need men and women sensitive to the humane and ideal aims of our society.”

C.P. Snow

“For science, by its very nature, exists in history. Any scientist realises that his subject is moving in time—that he knows incomparably more today than better, clever, and deeper men did twenty years ago. He knows that his pupils, in twenty years, will know incomparably more than he does. Scientists have it within them to know what a future-directed society feels like, for science itself, in its human aspect, is just that.”