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“Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.”

John Charles Polanyi · Knowledge

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John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

Freedom

John Charles Polanyi

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Science

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.

Society

John Charles Polanyi

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Respect