Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
John Charles Polanyi
Science is a collection of ...
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In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
John Charles Polanyi
I 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 procedure I have subsequently recommended to beginning scientists in this country, where research strategy is best modelled on that used by Wolfe at the Plains of Abraham.
John Charles Polanyi
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.
John Charles Polanyi
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
John Charles Polanyi
At 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 the truth where it may lead and which therefore have respect for different paths to that truth.
John Charles Polanyi
