#act

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#acting #anymore #be-all #bring #end-all

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

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#condition #honor #lies #part #rise

But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#clear #closely #fact #first #first thing

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

— Michael Polanyi

#brought #creative #evolution #existence #into

I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#die #disorder #eating #having #healthy

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government. ↗

— James K. Polk

#character #foreign #foreign powers #government #our

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#age #cannot #character #construct #cosmic