#uma

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

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

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

— John Charles Polanyi

#around #human #human rights #influence #rights

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#exercise #framework #human #human beings #intelligence

Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. ↗

— James K. Polk

#country #degree #depend #family #fear

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#because #every #everything #god #great

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#consciousness #desire #human #human nature #nature

So vast is art, so narrow human wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#human #narrow #vast #wit

Scientists are human, they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. ↗

— Cyril Ponnamperuma

#any #biased #great #great advantage #group