The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. John Charles Polanyi assertcontingentdefend Change image and share on social
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 Charles Polanyi aliencontraryessential share on social
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. John Charles Polanyi impossiblenicepowerful Change image and share on social
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. John Charles Polanyi breathefreedomoxygen Change image and share on social
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. John Charles Polanyi academyhumaninfluence Change image and share on social
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. John Charles Polanyi centuryexcitscience Change image and share on social
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. John Charles Polanyi fearscience Change image and share on social
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 Charles Polanyi absencebrutalcentury Change image and share on social
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. John Charles Polanyi acknowledgebasiccommonality Change image and share on social
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 Charles Polanyi agencycivilinternational Change image and share on social
