Hungarian - Scientist | January 23, 1929 -
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
John Polanyi
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Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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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.
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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.
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
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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.
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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
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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.
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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