Quotes by Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

Meaningful

People

Principles

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.

Body

Juniors

Scientist

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.

Body

Doe

Men

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.

Achievement

Chemistry

Physics

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Defined

Physics

Topography

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.

Agents

Exercise

Light

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Discovery

Made

Possibility

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

Exercise

Principles

Responsibility

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.

Data

Definite

Natural

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Facts

Humans

Starting

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Accepting

Achievement

Agents

Art

Belief

Believe

Body

Book

Chemistry

Choices

Coherence

Communication

Community

Creative

Criteria

Data

Defined

Definite

Determined

Discovery

Doe

Dwelling

Enlightenment

Example

Exercise

Existence

Facts

Feelings

Gathering Data

Humans

Ideas

Inanimate Objects

Ink And Paper

Intellectual

Judgment

Juniors

Knowing

Knowledge

Knows

Law

Learning

Light

Long

Looks

Made

Management

May

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Quotes by Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

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.

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.

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.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

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.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

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

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.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

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