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I’ve had to face up to the

fact that most of our society

thinks of scientists as people

who are likely to do something

bad. Either bad to make

money for themselves, or

to cause trouble in the

Frankensteinian sense.

And the fact is, scientists

that I know are trying to do

good for people.

—Douglas Melton

Harvard embryologist

It is not possible to be a

scientist unless you believe

that the knowledge of

the world, and the power

that this gives, is a thing

which is of intrinsic value

to humanity, and that you

are using it to help in the

spread of knowledge, and

are willing to take the

consequences.

—Robert Oppenheimer

November 1945