Famous Quotes

"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."

John Charles Polanyi on Fear

More quotes about Fear

• "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

  John F. Kennedy on Fear

• "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."

  Audrey Hepburn on Fear

• "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

  Thomas Paine on Fear

• "We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

  Jim Morrison on Fear

• "What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Fear

More quotes by John Charles Polanyi

• "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."

• "Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."

• "Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts."

• "Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."

• "Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."