Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. John Charles Polanyi authorityconstituteexceptional Change image and share on social
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 Charles Polanyi bombercanadaconspicuous Change image and share on social
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. John Charles Polanyi bindbreadthclaim share on social
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. John Charles Polanyi countryencouragementhold Change image and share on social
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. John Charles Polanyi equatefactknowledge 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
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
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. John Charles Polanyi conditionculturallyexplore Change image and share on social
