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“Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.”

John Charles Polanyi · Science

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John Charles Polanyi

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.

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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.

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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

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

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