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John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy."

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.




John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.



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."

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: "Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing."

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it."

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color."

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.




John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value."

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.



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."

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

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




John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it."

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.



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."

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

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: "Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science."

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Idealism is the highest form of reason."

Idealism is the highest form of reason.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "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."

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.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer."

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."

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



John Charles Polanyi Quotes: "Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice."

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.



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."

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."

[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: "In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much."

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.



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."

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: "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."

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.