The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. — Quoted

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“The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.”

John Charles Polanyi · Science

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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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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.

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Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

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A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.

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