John Charles Polanyi
  • When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

  • For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom.

  • Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

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

  • Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.