Author: John Polanyi

Quotes

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

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

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

- 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

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

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 Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

- 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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