"Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it." ― John Charles Polanyi Topic(s): Science More From John Charles Polanyi "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves." "Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science." "Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good." More In Science "I don’t read other science fiction. I don’t read any at all."― Jack Vance "Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics."― Stephen Hawking "Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor."― Liam Neeson