Famous Quotes

"Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey."

John Charles Polanyi on Science

More quotes about Science

• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Science

• "No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right a single experiment can prove me wrong."

  Albert Einstein on Science

• "Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Science

More quotes by John Charles Polanyi

• "When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves."

• "For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom."

• "Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."

• "Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts."

• "Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."