The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth.
In plain words
Science exists to find what is true and show it clearly.
Where these words come from
- 92% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- National Book Award for Nonfiction acceptance speech (1952, for The Sea Around Us); reprinted in Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson (1999), p. 91.
- National Book Award acceptance speech, reprinted in Lost Woods (1999)
- 1952
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