Best John Charles Polanyi Quotes
- Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. Gives
- Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. Better
- For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. Breathe
- Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. Dissent
- In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much. Abandon
- Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. Coerce
- In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. Acquire
- Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the… Believed
- Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention… Canadian
- What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to… All
- The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. Century
- When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Fear
- Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. Achieved
- Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. Equated
- The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their… All
- For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including… Addition
- If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Experience
- It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. Acknowledge
- The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. Assert