#sci

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#better #civilized #couched #die #flight

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

— John Charles Polanyi

#commonality #experience #humane #makes #most

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

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