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"For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."

John Charles Polanyi on Freedom

More quotes about Freedom

  • "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."

    Ronald Reagan on Freedom

  • "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

    Nelson Mandela on Freedom

  • "If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom."

    Dwight D. Eisenhower on Freedom

  • "I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

    Robert A. Heinlein on Freedom

  • "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."

    Mahatma Gandhi on Freedom

More quotes by John Charles Polanyi

  • "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."

  • "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."

  • "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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