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Michael Polanyi
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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."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Science
"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."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Science
"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."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Science
"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Faith
"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."
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Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Communication
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