"The respect for human rights, essential if we……" — 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 the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
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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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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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