Century Quote by John Charles Polanyi Download Open image “The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.” — John Charles Polanyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Exciting Most Science Thing Twentieth Twentieth century
Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades. — Benjamin Stone Copy Share Image
Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
As time passes and the more advanced science becomes, the more interesting it becomes. — Moby Copy Share Image
It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene. — Harold E. Varmus Copy Share Image
Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations. — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“The twentieth century was the Science Fiction Century. Science fiction affected everything, and we now live in a science fiction world.” — Charles N. Brown Copy Share Image
For me it's been very exciting to contribute to the public's understanding of how rich and wondrous science is. — Brian Greene 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
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image
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