Word: gyorgyi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting problems of a scientific age with primitive instincts, narrow sectarianism, egotistic nationalism, and with the most deadly instruments in our hands," declared Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi last night...
...speech at Harkness Commons, the Nobel Prize-winning biologist urged applying scientific thinking to the problem of achieving permanent peace--"a proposition much more complex and difficult than war. We can no longer save liberty by dying in war; we can only destroy it," said Szent-Gyorgyi. He deplored the genetic damage wreaked by atomic war, saying that "if anything in life is holy it is this genetic material which has mankind's past and future written into...
Since current politics are occupied with current problems, he continued, only a scientific mentality can meet the problems posed by science which need permanent solutions. Szent-Gyorgyi suggested that citizens in a democracy and politicians meeting in international conclave should bear the same attitude ". . . a neutral mind; a cool head, unbiased by sentiment, hatred, fear, or profit, with an uncompromising intellectual honesty...
...also endorsed the idea of a Congressional "scientific lobby" first proposed by physicist Leo Szilard at the University last December. Szent-Gyorgyi said he hopes to meet with Szilard for a discussion in Washington this weekend...