Absence Quote by John Charles Polanyi

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

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

— John Charles Polanyi

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

— Aldous Huxley

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes…

— Carol Bellamy

Technology can be used to make people's lives easier, to reduce inequality, to facilitate inclusion, or to solve intractable global problems, but without dialogue…

— Sharan Burrow

Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

— Edgar Friedenberg

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

— Bill Condon

Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human…

— Jonathan Sacks

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your…

— Nelson Mandela

We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

— Freeman Dyson

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

— John Lindsay

Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense.

— Richard Dawkins