Hungarian - Scientist | January 23, 1929 -
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.
John Polanyi
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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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.
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
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The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
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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.
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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.
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