In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether canada should acquire nuclear weapons. — John Polanyi
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people’s experience. — John Polanyi
For scholarship – if it is to be scholarship – requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth — John Polanyi
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the — John Polanyi
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it. — John Polanyi
Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. — John Polanyi
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. — John Polanyi
It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people’s experience. — John Polanyi
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology — John Polanyi
Individual scientists like myself – and many more conspicuous – pointed to the dangers of — John Polanyi
The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien — John Polanyi
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international ngo of exceptional authority. — John Polanyi
What makes the universal declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus — John Polanyi
Today, academies of science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. — John Polanyi
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. — John Polanyi
