Quotes from John Charles Polanyi

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.

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement.

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.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.