#gen

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

— Michael Polanyi

#exercise #framework #human #human beings #intelligence

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

#general #general public #imposing #inquiry #intrinsic

The Congressional leaders set the agenda for journalism; it's not the other way around. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#around #congressional #journalism #leaders #other

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

#beforehand #bottom #certain #experience #find

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#chance #come #contingency #happens #historical

Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#critical #done #even #extensively #fairness

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#genetic #i #making #mean #modification

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#been #cell #concerns #england #general

The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't have. It's very convenient to blame the media, the same way we blame television for everything that's going wrong in society. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#believe #blame #convenient #everything #generally

I was concerned about that, because I've always been so specific about doing independent films, but I've never done anything that's so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that's a great thing, for me to discover that that's possible. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#always #anything #because #been #concerned