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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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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

~ John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

~ John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

~ John Charles Polanyi

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including self-interest.

~ John Charles Polanyi