55 Quotes by John Charles Polanyi

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.

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.

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.

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

Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.

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

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.