Bertrand Russel
The Bomb and Civilization, Bertrand Russel

Umiddelbart efter at første atombombe var kastet over Hiroshima, samtidig med at den anden bombe blev kastet over Nagasaki, skrev Bertrand Russell denne artikel, hvor dilemmaet mellem videnskabens destruktive og konstruktive anvendelser tages under behandling. Et andet tema i artiklen er samspillet mellem videnskab og politik. Har politikeren eller videnskabsmanden ansvaret?

Artiklen i pdf-format: http://russell.mcmaster.ca

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“One is tempted to feel that Man is being punished, through the agency of 20 his own evil passions, for impiety in inquiring too closely into the hidden secrets of nature. But such a feeling is unduly defeatist. Science is capable of conferring enormous boons: it can lighten labour, abolish poverty, and enormously diminish disease. But if science is to bring benefits instead of death,we must bring to bear upon social, and especially international, organization, intelligence of the same high order that has enabled us to discover the structure of the atom.”


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