John Charles Polanyi Quotes & Sayings

“Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”

“The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.”

“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.”

“For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.”

“Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.”

“Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.”

“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.”

“A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.”

“Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.”

“Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.”