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."

"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."