Reconceptualize science to reduce violence in our world

The interface between democracy and science has always been a complex and problematic one, which, to be properly understood, must be situated in relation to a third concept, which is nonviolence.

TORONTO—Albert Einstein used to say that "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." We can also add that: "Science without democracy is arbitrary, as democracy without science is ignorant." The interface between democracy and science has always been a complex and...

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