“Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.Quote by John Charles PolanyiTopics: Quotes about John Charles PolanyiShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with...#John Charles Polanyi
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.#John Charles Polanyi
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United...#John Charles Polanyi
Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about...#John Charles Polanyi
If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure...#John Charles Polanyi
Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.#John Charles Polanyi
Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight...#John Charles Polanyi