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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

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.


John Charles Polanyi


#end #eye #middle #searches #shapes

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.


John Charles Polanyi


#exciting #exciting thing #most #science #thing

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


#also #contrary #essential #general #grafted

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.


John Charles Polanyi


#claim #community #found #marked #monopoly

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


John Charles Polanyi


#come #contingent #defend #fact #others

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.


John Charles Polanyi


#increasingly #protect #responsibility #science #scientists

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


John Charles Polanyi


#around #human #human rights #influence #rights

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.


John Charles Polanyi


#conceded #geneva #government #moral #pressure






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