Quotes by John Charles Polanyi - Page 1

Idealism is the highest form of reason.
John Charles Polanyi / Chemist
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Idealism
Reason
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For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
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Breathe
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Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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Dignity
Human Dignity
Personal Dignity
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Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.
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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
John Charles Polanyi / Chemist
Democracies Have
Democracy
Taken
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Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
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Character
Stories
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Ends
Eye
Shapes
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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Science
Dreamer
Insomnia
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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
John Charles Polanyi / Chemist
Facts
Mind
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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
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Giving
Giving Up
Never Giving Up
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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
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Reality
Universal
Way
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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Rights
Support
Use
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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
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Journey
Dissent
Ends
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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Ideas
Spring
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Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
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Causes
Molecules
World
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Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
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Scientist
Should
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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
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People
Real
Treasure
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Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
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Science
Color
Ethnicity
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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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Actors
Celebration
Delight
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
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Dignity
Human Dignity
Humans
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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
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Nice
Powerful
Vocabulary
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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.
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Inspirational
Doe
Too Much
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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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Ifs
Reality
Suffering
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
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Science
Goal
Sight
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Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
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Protect
Responsibility
Scientist
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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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Technology
Oppression
Rights
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Discoveries that are anticipated are seldom the most valuable. ... It's the scientist free to pilot his vessel across hidden shoals into open seas who gives the best value.
John Charles Polanyi / Chemist
Science
Discovery
Sea
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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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Responsibility
Voice
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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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Bombers
Nuclear
Weapons
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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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Encouragement
Country
People
Thinking
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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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Quality
Assessment
Economic
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[Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.
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Courage
Quality
Believe
Disappointment
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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.
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Technology
Essentials
Rights
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A wise man in China asked his gardener to plant a shrub. The gardener objected that it only flowered once in a hundred years. "In that case," said the wise man, "plant it immediately." [On the importance of fundamental research.]
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Wisdom
Wise
Science
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It 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 are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.
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Science
Discovery
Use
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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.
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Freedom
Truth
Lying
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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.
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Science
Country
Order
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