"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science." ― John Charles Polanyi Topic(s): Science More From John Charles Polanyi "Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it." "Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things." "Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey." More In Science "Science is but an image of the truth."― Francis Bacon "Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we’ve made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true."― Charles Vest "We’re not all equal, it’s simply not true. That isn’t science."― James D. Watson