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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 they must rely on for support and encouragement.

~John Charles Polanyi

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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

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Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

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

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Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

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

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

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

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Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Scientist

Born: January 23rd, 1929

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