Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. -John Charles Polanyi Science
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 Truth
Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. -John Charles Polanyi Science
Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. -John Charles Polanyi Government
