The Scientist as ‘Civic Man’

Abstract

We must never forget that security and tolerance, humanism and particularism, universality and specificity, science and ethics — the whole range of philosophical problems that arise in the confrontation with the concrete development of the world — can be posited at two levels, and from two points of view.

The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace ... It does ... a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

John Ruskin

A man cannot choose his origins, but he can choose his future. He has only to remould himself in practice.

Chou En-Lai