Aliens Quote by John Charles Polanyi

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

— John Charles Polanyi

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for…

— John Charles Polanyi

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

— Shirin Ebadi

Humankind has the science and technology to destroy itself or to provide prosperity for all. But while science offers us these opportunities, science will…

— Margaret Beckett

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

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are…

— Vandana Shiva

There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that…

— Benjamin Carson

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any…

— Bram Cohen

Nothing in science has any value to society if it is not communicated, and scientists are beginning to learn their social obligations.

— Anne Roe

The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence,…

— Jimmy Carter

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

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

— Edgar Friedenberg