Academy 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

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

We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility…

— Carl Sagan

Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations.

— Shirin Ebadi

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

“2009 the International Society for Human Rights estimated”

— George Weigel

Those who have been outspoken in advocating human rights during these last forty years, have themselves grabbed the most fundamental of human rights from…

— Ali Khamenei

Putting the World to Rights

— Margaret Thatcher

“As a rule, the extent to which politics can become the object of free scientific inquiry is a most accurate barometer by which to…

— Masao Maruyama

Since Humanism as a functioning credo is so closely bound up with the methods of reason and science, plainly free speech and democracy are…

— Corliss Lamont

There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality…

— Nancy Pearcey

I'm struck by how very few people outside a rarefied world of true believers understand what you mean when you say human rights -…

— Mary Robinson