Michael Polanyi

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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