John Polanyi
Scientist
1929-01-23
Quotes by John Polanyi
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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.
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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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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
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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.
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