Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
Quote by John Charles Polanyi
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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John Charles Polanyi Quotes
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
- For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
- 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.
- Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
- Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science.
- Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
- Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
- It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
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