"Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence."
― Michael Polanyi
Topic(s):
Intelligence
More From Michael Polanyi
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Intelligence
- "Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."― Grover Cleveland
- "I think of each new season as an evolution, not a change in style."― Manolo Blahnik
- "A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."― Victor Hugo