John Polanyi Quotes
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
Quotes to Explore
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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I hate auditions - when I'm doing them, I can't wait to get out the bleeding door.
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Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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If the Chinese will not learn the true principles of government, all else will be useless. Knowledge is power, and although a country may be weak, still, if it possess but a modicum of knowledge, the enemy will not be able to completely overthrow it; although that country may be in danger, the race will not be extirpated.
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I have a Ph.D. in cell biology. And that's really manual labor. I mean, experimental science, you do it with your hands. So it's very different. You're out there in a lab, cleaning test tubes, and it just wasn't that fascinating.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Al Qaeda likes to coordinate, have a central command to be able to send out emissaries around that they have highly trained and say, 'This is the moment we're going to do a large-scale attack.'
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I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.
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We strongly oppose warning labels on cigarette packs for several reasons: first and foremost, warning labels may improperly imply that it has been scientifically established that smoking causes disease
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When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
