Author: John 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 Polanyi

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

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

- John Polanyi

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 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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

- John Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

- 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

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.

- John Polanyi

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

- John Polanyi

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