"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to……" — John Charles Polanyi
"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
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John Charles Polanyi
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44 Quotes by John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi has 44 quotes on this site.
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
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It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because…
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping…
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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will…
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any,…
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment…
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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More Coerce Quotes
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A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce…
— James Allen
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The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!
— Adolf Hitler
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
— Herbert Spencer
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It seems to me, and I am personally convinced, that the Church must never speak from a position of strength.…
— Anthony of Sourozh
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Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Most power is power to coerce somebody. We don't have the power to coerce anybody.
— Charles Koch
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and…
— Ronald Reagan
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I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager…
— Edward Abbey
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The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to…
— Edward Abbey
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Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it…
— Kent Nerburn
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She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither…
— Margaret Sanger
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