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"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."

John Charles Polanyi on Science

More quotes about Science

  • "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

  • "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

    Albert Einstein on Science

  • "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

    Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by 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."

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