Abdullah Öcalan (1949) Founder of the PKK
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017), Democratic Confederalism
Source: Reflections of Humanity, (1984), p. 17: Second paragraph.
Abdullah Öcalan (1949) Founder of the PKK
The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017), Democratic Confederalism
Abdullah Öcalan (1949) Founder of the PKK
Source: The Political Thought of Abdullah Ocalan (2017), Democratic Confederalism, p. 47
Joel Fuhrman (1953) Family Physician and author
Trying to prevent breast, prostate, and other cancers as an adult may not be totally possible because most risk factors cannot be changed at this late stage. The bottom line is that in order to have a major impact on preventing cancer we must intervene much earlier, even as early as the first ten years of life. In other words, childhood diets create adult cancers.
Introduction, p. xviii
Disease-Proof Your Child (2005)
“There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.”
Patrick Buchanan (1938) American politician and commentator
Source: Newsday (11 November 1992). <ref> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1991/12/09/buchanan-wont-dodge-issues-used-by-duke/b453450b-4ed9-445d-b862-a2bc4dc08993/?utm_term=.5e83276abd1b
Arthur Kemp (1962) British writer
Collective Nouns, blog post http://www.arthurkemp.com/?p=140 <br class="br">Quotes from other works:
Bobby Sands (1954–1981) Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
"Modern Times"
Poetry, Miscellaneous poems
Wernher von Braun (1912–1977) German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space architect
Comparable to remarks of William Masters, in "Two Sex Researchers on the Firing Line" LIFE magazine (24 June 1966), p. 49: "Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built."
Variants:
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.
As quoted in Futurehype: The Myths of Technology Change (2009) by Robert B. Seidensticker
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. Should the knife have not been developed?
As quoted in Science & Society (2012) by Peter Daempfle, Ch. 6, p. 97<!-- also in Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience, and Just Plain Bunk: How to Tell the Difference (2013) by Peter Daempfle, Ch. 9, p. 166 -->
Responsible Scientific Investigation and Application (1976)
Context: 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. What makes it even worse, science has utterly failed to provide an answer on how to cope with them. As a result, science and scientists have often been blamed for the desperate dilemma in which mankind finds itself today.
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. The same nuclear chain reaction that produces badly needed electrical energy when harnessed in a reactor, may kill thousands when abruptly released in an atomic bomb. Thus it does not make sense to ask a biochemist or a nuclear physicist whether his research in the field of toxic substances or nuclear processes is good or bad for mankind. In most cases the scientist will be fully aware of the possibility of an abuse of his discoveries, but aside from his innate scientific curiosity he will be motivated by a deep-seated hope and belief that something of value for his fellow man may emerge from his labors.
The same applies to technology, through which most advances in the natural sciences are put to practical use.
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
The Novel: What It Is (1893)
William St Clair (1937) author
Source: That Greece Might Still be Free (1972), p. 15-16.
Anthony D. Smith (1939–2016) British academic
As cited by Eric G.E. Zuelow " Anthony D. Smith, Nationalism and the Reconstruction of Nations http://www.nationalismproject.org/what/smith1.htm" on nationalismproject.org. 1999-2007. <br class="br">Gastronomy or Geology? The Role of Nationalism in the Reconstruction of Nations. (1994)