34 Quotes by John Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

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

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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.

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.