John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom…

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not…

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about…

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

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that…

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they…

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science…

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

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with…

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

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges…

Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight…

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with…

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have…

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