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01Undated

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

John Charles Polanyi / quote

02Undated

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

John Charles Polanyi / quote

03Undated

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

John Charles Polanyi / quote

04Undated

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi / quote

05Undated

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

John Charles Polanyi / quote

06Undated

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 Charles Polanyi / quote