John Charles PolanyiScience is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.371Truth
John Charles PolanyiFor science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.352Politics
John Charles PolanyiIndividual 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 incomin… ▶355Hope
John Charles PolanyiHuman dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. ✨ Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.345Humanity
John Charles PolanyiScience exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.327Death
John Charles PolanyiAt the heart of science lies discovery which involves a change in worldview. Discovery in science is possible only in societies which accord their citizens the freedom to pursue t… ▶283LoveTruth
John Charles PolanyiAuthority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. ✨ Address to the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression awards banquet,… ▶307Thought
John Charles PolanyiThough we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.307Truth
John Charles PolanyiInstead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.253Humanity
John Charles PolanyiScience is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.287Politics
John Charles PolanyiIn education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.3110Philosophy
John Charles PolanyiYoung 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 e… ▶256HumanityThought
John Charles PolanyiIt takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.2710Reflection
John Charles PolanyiIt is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes ar… ▶193Humor
John Charles PolanyiIn nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.194Thought
John Charles PolanyiToday, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.238Humanity
John Charles PolanyiThe applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.217DeathTime
John Charles PolanyiI knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam machine. I decided to follow a byway, rather than the highway. It is a proced… ▶197Time
John Charles PolanyiReality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.2110TimeTruth
John Charles PolanyiThe eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.145Reading
John Charles PolanyiSome dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.137Hope
