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Gordon Brown gives Romanes Lecture at Oxford University; Gordon Brown speech SOT - Quite simply, we know that the frontiers of social and environmental progress both here in Britain and across the world depend on science, but they also rightly depend on the boundaries placed on science by society / Getting the boundaries right will be challenging, difficult and painful, often requiring the most delicate and finely balanced of ethical judgements, but we can't afford to duck the challenge just because it will be hard, for while not everyone is in the business of science, science is everybody's business / When Gandhi described the sins of the world - he spoke not just of 'politics without principle' - which you might recognise - and "wealth without work" - he also spoke of 'science without humanity' / I believe that it's precisely - and only - by enlisting science in the service of humanity that we can hold out the hope of reaching the great progressive goals of our time. And that is our challenge today - as a nation and, increasingly, as a global society - British science, from the double helix to the MRI scanner; from medicine to global communications; from the telephone to the television; from the origin of computer science to the creation of the World Wide Web; British science is amongst the world's best - and well placed to make a contribution to these great goals, and that is one of the many reasons I feel so proud to have been given the chance at this time to lead this country I love / Time and again British scientists and British inventors continue to pioneer the great advances / British scientists first with cloning - and Dolly the sheep; a British research team - led by one of the world's leading heart surgeons, Sir Magdi Yacoub - for the first time grew part of a human heart from stem cells; a significant step towards the goal of growing whole replacement hearts from stem cells - Whether it's the long reach of British scientists in identifying three ne...