Sober recognition of scientific research as the basis of our future national security should certainly be nonpartisan. My emphasis tonight has been on the physical and biological sciences. These are obviously in the forefront in terms of our industry and technology. The social sciences offer us better ways of organizing our lives. Now and in the years ahead, we need more than anything else the honest and uncompromising common sense of science.
Science means a method of thought.
That method is characterized by open-mindedness, honesty, perseverance, and above all, by an unfl inching passion for knowledge and truth. When more of the peoples of the world have learned the ways of thought of the scientist, we shall have better reason to expect lasting peace and a fuller life for all. The address was carried on a nationwide r adio broadcast.