Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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  The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

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  Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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  It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality

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  If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's exper

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  Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves t

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  Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of

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  Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

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  Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one

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  Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have t

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  In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.