John Charles Polanyi Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.”

“Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.”

“In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.”

“Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.”

“Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.”

“Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.”

“The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.”

“The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.”

“The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.”

“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.”