timetalk uses cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our site. If you continue without changing your browser settings, we'll assume that you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more by reading our cookies policy.

x

Famous Quotes

Back to Author

"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."

John Charles Polanyi on Respect

More quotes about Respect

  • "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

  • "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

    Albert Einstein on Respect

  • "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

    Albert Einstein on Respect

  • "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

    Malcolm X on Respect

  • "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

    Abraham Lincoln on Respect

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."

© Supatel Limited 2024