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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
— John Charles Polanyi
We know more than we can tell.
— Michael Polanyi
But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
— Michael Polanyi
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
— John Polanyi
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
— Michael Polanyi
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.
— John Charles Polanyi
Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
— Michael Polanyi
Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
— John Charles Polanyi
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
— John Charles Polanyi
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.
— John Charles Polanyi
For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.
— John Charles Polanyi
Idealism is the highest form of reason.
— John Charles Polanyi
Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
— Michael Polanyi
Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
— John Charles Polanyi
The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.
— 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.
— John Charles Polanyi
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
— John Charles Polanyi
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
— John Charles Polanyi
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
— Michael Polanyi
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
— John Charles Polanyi
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
— John Charles Polanyi
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.
— John Charles Polanyi
the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;
— Karl Polanyi
Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice.
— John Charles Polanyi
Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.
— John Charles Polanyi
Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.
— 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.
— John Charles Polanyi
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
— John Charles Polanyi