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Explore more quotes by John Charles Polanyi
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."
"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."
"Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol."
"The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly."
"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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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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