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No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.


Alexander Pope


#being in love #ever #friend #hate #hates

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


John Charles Polanyi


#coerce #derives #knowledge #others #power

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.


John Charles Polanyi


#assessment #criterion #insist #instead #largely

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


#impossible #nice #nice things #only #powerful

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.


John Charles Polanyi


#claims #gives #never #science #searching

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.


John Charles Polanyi


#facts #knowledge #mind #only #popular

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.


John Charles Polanyi


#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.


John Charles Polanyi


#demand #discover #dreamers #good #only

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.


John Charles Polanyi


#freedom #must #oxygen #science

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.


John Charles Polanyi


#applause #audience #celebration #constitutes #delight






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