Author: John Polanyi

Quotes

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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