Top 28 Quotes by John Charles Polanyi

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol.

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

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

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

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.