“When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.”

—  John Polanyi

Nobel Prize acceptance speech http://www.utoronto.ca/jpolanyi/nobel_prize/, Nobel Banquet in Stockholm (1986)

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