In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science because it was for the good of the Communist Party.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
In the 1950s, the average person saw science as something that solved problems. With the advent of nuclear weapons and pollution, the idealistic aura around scientific research has been replaced by cynicism.
Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
It was wrong to allow Stalin to shape the European landscape of the 20th century. It would be even more wrong to let him shape the landscape of the 21st century.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.
You know as a scientist that both were developed completely independently of each other in the laboratories. And only afterward were the political situations contrived out of which they could be justified.