Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
John Charles Polanyi
Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.
The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that... →
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs.... →
Michael Polanyi
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by... →
I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither... →
I also think we need to maintain distinctions - the doctrine of creation is different from a scientific cosmology, and we should resist the... →
John Polkinghorne