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The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

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I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

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One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve. ↗

— Iain M. Banks

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Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love. ↗

— Lauren Tarshis

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