Science, Faith, and Society by Michael Polanyi

This is a careful and authoritative discussion of how science works and its scope. He speaks against a naive view of self-correcting science and premise-free science. He gives historical examples of validated experiments that proved to be mistaken, and theory eventually found true despite contradictory experimental evidence. He wants science to be free and not limited by tradition, dogma, or seniority. Belief in truth, love of truth, pursuit of truth. He considers radical empiricists as inevitably moving to complete metaphysical nihilism. He denies truth is demonstrable but holds that truth is knowable. Knowledge of reality will lead us to God.