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With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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Science is nothing but perception. ↗

— Plato

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

— John Charles Polanyi

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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

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

— John Charles Polanyi

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

— John Charles Polanyi

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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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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

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

— John Charles Polanyi

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