Dr. Anatol Rappoport
Peace Chair Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and president of Science for Peace.
The speaker discusses the role of science in the modern age. Science cannot continue without morality to guide it. Relying on the moral neutrality of science is analogous to asking the Cheshire Cat: “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat. The “unholy alliance between science and institutionalized war” is explored. Science cannot be morally neutral. “Institutions exist for the transformation of the discoveries of science into new technologies or effective medicine but no institutions exist for transforming the knowledge of the findings of peace research” into action. “The most important task of science in our age is to break the bonds with which human thought has been shackled and human potential stifled.”