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John Polanyi
John Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
Born: Jan 23, 1929
Experience Only People Rights Science Truth
Related authors: Carl Sagan Charles Darwin Galileo Galilei George Washington Carver Hippocrates Margaret Mead Marie Curie Neil deGrasse Tyson
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. John Polanyi
Freedom Science Must Oxygen Breathe
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. John Polanyi
Knowledge Mind Only Facts Equated Popular
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
Me Science People Will Country Encouragement Young Thinking Must About Rely Support Passport Hold Young People Ask Serious
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. John Polanyi
Only Delight Shared Also Audience Celebration Moment Actor Applause
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. John Polanyi
Knowledge Dignity Better Embracing Human Human Dignity Served
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. John Polanyi
Reality Way Though Sketch Explore Universal
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. John Polanyi
Science Experience People Humane Pursuit Most Makes Acknowledge Commonality Basic
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
Quality Worth Insist Our Though Criterion Ourselves Sham Instead Scientists Lend Should Largely Assessment Socio-Economic Applying
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
Knowledge Responsibility Rest Power Think Society Others Because Scientists Derives Special Coerce
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. John Polanyi
Government Pressure Moral Weapons Conceded Geneva Protocol Scientific Canadian Vietnam View Use Publicly
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. John Polanyi
Today Rights Science World Human Rights Support Academy Around Human Influence Use
What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. John Polanyi
Commitment World First Secondly Claims Impetus New Global Document First Of All Makes Contract Governments Breadth Social Declaration Social Contract Binding Universal
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. John Polanyi
Democracy Nation Taken Autocracy After Place
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
Responsibility Sense United Nations Society Unmistakable Thousands Civil Civil Society Voices Shared New Nations Agencies International United
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. John Polanyi
Time Rights Others Our Willingness Fact Come Underscore Contingent Them Assert Defend
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
Truth Science Else Claims Gives Never Puts Since Because Up Personal Achieved Interests Including Searching

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