"My own belief is that science remains the most powerful tool we have yet generated to apply leverage for our future. It is the instrument which is most useful for guiding our own destinies, for assuring the condition of man in the years to come. I have much to hope that we will not abandon that tool, leaving us to our own brute devices."
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Testimony before the Subcommittee on Science, Research and Development, House Committee on Science and Astronautics. Hearings, 1971 National Science Foundation Authorization, 91st Cong. 2nd sess. (1970) p. 16. Reported in Marlan Blissett, Politics in Science (Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1972) p. 181
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Philip Handler
Philip Handler (August 13, 1917 – December 29, 1981) was an American nutritionist, and biochemist. He was President of the United States National Academy of Sciences for two terms from 1969 to 1981. He was also a recipient of the National Medal of Science.
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