When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their… — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
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