Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

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• John Polanyi:

  Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one

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  Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have t

• John Polanyi:

  In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons.

• John Polanyi:

  Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioacti

• John Polanyi:

  Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We wer

• John Polanyi:

  Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of

• John Polanyi:

  Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.

• John Polanyi:

  What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and sec

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  Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been

• John Polanyi:

  The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien