Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
John Charles Polanyi

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
John Charles Polanyi

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.
John Charles Polanyi

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience.
John Charles Polanyi

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
John Charles Polanyi

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
John Charles Polanyi

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
John Charles Polanyi

A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
John Charles Polanyi