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