"When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves." ― John Charles Polanyi Topic(s): Science More From John Charles Polanyi "Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren’t thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement." "Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things." "It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people’s experience." More In Science "We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology."― Deepak Chopra "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."― John Burroughs "I don’t recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college."― Ellen Ochoa