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John Charles Polanyi
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person. -
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson nothing is impossible. -
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. -
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement. -
Science has produced such powerful weapons that in a war between great powers there would be neither victor nor vanquished. Both would be overwhelmed in destruction.
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- 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.