Author: John Polanyi

Quotes

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

- John Polanyi

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 Polanyi

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 Polanyi

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

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

- John Polanyi

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 Polanyi

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 Polanyi

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 Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

- John Polanyi

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

- John Polanyi

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