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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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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
~ Michael Polanyi
Admittedly
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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
Achievements
Actual
Biology
Chemistry
Explanations
Founded
Mechanisms
Physics
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Same Thing
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Thing
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But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
~ Michael Polanyi
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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
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Agents
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Economy
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Incentive
Information
Light
Market
Money
Mutually
Only
Prices
Provides
Ruling
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Terms
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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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Framework
Human
Human Beings
Intelligence
Obligations
Principle
Responsibilities
Setting
Social
Transcend
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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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Any
Data
Definite
Derived
Embodied
Experience
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Natural
Natural Science
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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
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Cannot
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Contrary
Extent
Feelings
Intellectual
Knowledge
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Mental
Mental Processes
Noticeable
On The Contrary
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Processes
Shall
Suggest
Tell
We Cannot
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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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Scientific Progress
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My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.
~ Michael Polanyi
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Politic
Principles
Production
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Scientists
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Way
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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
~ Michael Polanyi
Chemistry
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Fully
Inanimate
Laws
Object
Physics
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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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Belief
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So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
~ Michael Polanyi
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Theory
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Universe
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Vocabulary
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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
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First Thing
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In Fact
Judgment
Knit
Light
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Organization
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Personal
Problems
Pursuing
Scientists
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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
Articles
Beliefs
Enlightenment
Explicitly
Faith
Held
Philosophic
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Scientific
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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
~ Michael Polanyi
Acts
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Creative
Evolution
Existence
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Theories
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These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
~ Michael Polanyi
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Beliefs
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Embodied
Interpreting
Maxims
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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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