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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.
- John Polanyi
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. It is civilizing because it puts truth ahead of all else, including personal interests.
- John Polanyi
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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
- John Polanyi
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
- John Polanyi
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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 Polanyi
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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.
- John Polanyi
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
- John Polanyi
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
- John Polanyi
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
- John 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 Polanyi
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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
- John Polanyi
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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 Polanyi
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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 Polanyi
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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
- John Polanyi
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
- John Polanyi
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
- John Polanyi
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
- John Polanyi
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