Irrelevant Quote by John Charles Polanyi Download Open image “Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.” — John Charles Polanyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irrelevant Science
It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to do bad things, science is the most powerful way to do them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about… — Hermann Bondi Copy Share Image
Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People must understand that science is inherently neither a potential for good nor for evil. It is a potential to be harnessed by man… — Glenn T. Seaborg Copy Share Image
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Debunking bad science should be constant obligation of the science community, even if it takes time away from serious research or seems to be… — Martin Gardner 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
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi Copy Share Image
In an economy increasingly dominated by network effects, peer-to-peer transactions, self-regulation, and contract labor, the old frameworks are woefully irrelevant. — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
There are big lines between those who play video games and those who do not. For those who don't, video games are irrelevant. They… — Shigeru Miyamoto Copy Share Image
I guess I make a lot of stupid comments that are, like, pretty irrelevant to a lot of things. — Cody Bellinger Copy Share Image
There's none as deaf as those who won't listen. I get letters. If they are moronic, they go in the wastepaper basket, but if… — Ken Bates Copy Share Image
Committing to providing greater opportunities for disabled actors should include writing disabilities into more roles where it is irrelevant to the storyline. — Chris McCausland Copy Share Image
Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I don't spend much time thinking about whether God exists. I don't consider that a relevant question. It's unanswerable and irrelevant to my life,… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
All Playboy bunnies were constantly reminded that the TV show was Hugh Hefner's show - our contributions were irrelevant. We were the decorative icing,… — Holly Madison Copy Share Image
Let me put it bluntly: anyone who says that money isn't important doesn't have any! Rich people understand the importance of money and the… — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant. — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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