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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.


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



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



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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.



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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.



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



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



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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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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.



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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.





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