34 Quotes by John Polanyi

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

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.

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

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

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.