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. The shame is ours if we do not make science part of our world...

— Jacob Bronowski, The Sense of Human Dignity (1953)

Delivered at MIT on 19 March 1953; printed in Science and Human Values (1959).

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