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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.
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
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John Polanyi
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January 23, 1929
(age 96)
Bio:
John Charles Polanyi is a Hungarian-Canadian chemist who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for his research in chemical kinetics.
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