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
More from: John Charles Polanyi
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. -
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. -
We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers. -
The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it. -
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
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.