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.
John Charles PolanyiAbout author
- Author's profession: Scientist
- Nationality: canadian
- Born: January 23, 1929
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