If science . . .

If science, impelled by its internal evolution, must act the way industry and the military do, it is industry and the military that are threatening and undermining the freedom of research from outside. While science and technology have taken on an unprecedented and all-pervasive importance in contemporary society, affecting the life of every citizen, of every living being---while it has become a productive force, a means of production---it is today largely determined by the interests and axioms of those who in a given society exercise real power.

Elisabeth Mann Borgese, introductory essay to her edited volume Pacem in Maribus (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1972), xvi.