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John Charles Polanyi Quotes
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
[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 even rarer than physical courage (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others’ rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Our assessment of socio - economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Idealism is the highest form of reason (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people’s experience (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
It is this, at it's most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
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 (John Charles Polanyi Quotes)
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