If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. - John Charles Polanyi
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
- John Charles Polanyi
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. - John Charles Polanyi
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. - John Charles Polanyi
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
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 th… - John Charles Polanyi
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 th…
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
In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. - John Charles Polanyi
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. - John Charles Polanyi
Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. - John Charles Polanyi
The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for op… - 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 op…
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