"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves." ― John Charles Polanyi Topic(s): Science More From John Charles Polanyi "The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science." "Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge." "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom." More In Science "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us."― Paul Valery "How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?"― Tim Reid "Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science."― Edward Sapir