John Charles Polanyi, (born January 23, 1929) is a Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics.
Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. Use this quote
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. Use this quote
