"Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good." ― John Charles Polanyi Topic(s): Science More From John Charles Polanyi "The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general." "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom." "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves." More In Science "The thing about science fiction is that it’s totally wide open. But it’s wide open in a conditional way."― Octavia Butler "Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect."― Freeman Dyson "One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls."― Thor Heyerdahl