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One of the most disconcerting issues of our time lies in the fact that modern science, along with miracle drugs and communications satellites, has also produced nuclear bombs.
Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
Science, all by itself, has no moral dimension. The same poison-containing drug which cures when taken in small doses, may kill when taken in excess.
Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently.
Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
I would like simply to point out that the space program has by all standards become America's greatest generator of new ideas in science and technology.
Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
Science, by itself, has no moral dimension. The drug which cures when taken in small doses may kill when taken in excess. The nuclear energies that produce cheap electrical power when harnessed in a reactor may kill when abruptly released in a bomb. Thus, it does not make sense to ask a scientist whether his poison or his nuclear energy is “good” or “bad” for mankind.