"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
― John Charles Polanyi
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― John Charles Polanyi
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- "Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
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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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