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Reality is no less precious if...

Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Instead, in the absence of res...

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 36 quotes

If we treasure our own experie...

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Nothing is more irredeemably i...

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

[Intellectual courage is] the ...

[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

When, as we must often do, we ...

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Even in the world of molecules...

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

John Polanyi 36 quotes

In nation after nation, democr...

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

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Individual scientists like mys...

Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Today, Academies of Science us...

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Though we explore in a cultura...

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

At the heart of science lies d...

At the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Some dreamers demand that scie...

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

A new sense of shared internat...

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

The respect for human rights, ...

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Discoveries that are anticipat...

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Science is a collection of sto...

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Idealism is the highest form o...

Idealism is the highest form of reason.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

It takes a trained and discern...

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

Human dignity is better served...

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Polanyi 36 quotes

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