My own impression is that a number of admirable values are manifest in science. Science is for instance committed to learning the truth - seriously committed to the ascertainment of verifiable truth - and this is not, as yet, a universal or even a particularly popular human attitude. Moreover, science from its inception has been a friend of free speech, the enemy of what the amateur scientist Thomas Jefferson called " every form of tyranny over the mind of man." The scientific community today, for all its faults, remains generally open and unsecretive, international and egalitarian.
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我自己认为，关于科学有一些高尚的价值观。科学，直接的是为研究真理----严格地为可以证明的真理-----而这一点，还未成为普遍的，甚至是一定范围内，被认可的态度。而且，科学自开始就是自由言论的密友，是业余科学家托马斯杰弗逊所说任何加在人类思想之上的暴政的敌人。今日的科学社区，无论如何，一般的是保留了它的开放性、非秘密性、世界性及平等性。