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.

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

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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

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

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.

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