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
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. John Charles Polanyi dignityembracehuman Change image and share on social
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. John Charles Polanyi authorityconstituteexceptional Change image and 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
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
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
