"Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical."

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Source : "Dark materials" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2006.

Martin Rees

#Responsibility Quotes #Technology Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“If I wanted to play the violin, I had to work. Because anything that one wants to do really, and one loves doing, one must do everyday. It should be as easy to the artist and as natural as flying is to a bird. And you canâ€™t imagine a bird saying well, Iâ€™m tired today, Iâ€™m not going to fly!”
“Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.”
“If the secret of being a bore is to tell all, the secret of pleasing is to say just enough to be -not understood, but divined.”
“I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.”
“I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.”
“Moment by moment, with a twitch, a shudder, a look, it's Mr. Hardy who movingly draws you in, turning a stranger's face into a life.”

Source : "No Time for Audiobooks: He’s on the Road to His Destiny" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2014.
“The soul of a landscape, the spirits of the elements, the genius of every place will be revealed to a loving view of nature.”
“We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.”

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