There is "something new under the sun" in that modern science has given mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking it away from someone else. Science really creates wealth and opportunity where they did not exist before.
A Scientist Speaks: Excerpts from Addresses by Karl Taylor Compton, During the Years 1930-1949 (p. 2), Undergraduate Association, MIT.