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To try to reform all the powe...

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Discoveries are made by pursu...

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Moreover, only a strong and u...

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 47 quotes

The process of philosophic and...

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

While tacit knowledge can be p...

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Human beings exercise responsi...

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

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

We know more than we can tell....

We know more than we can tell.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Discoveries are made by pursui...

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

To try to reform all the power...

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

We do not accept a religion be...

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

A free society is regarded as ...

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.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Our reliance on the validity o...

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Personal participation is the ...

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

The information in DNA could n...

The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

The amount of knowledge which ...

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

I shall reconsider human knowl...

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

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

But even physics cannot be def...

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Of course language manifests a...

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Theories of evolution must pro...

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

Admittedly, scientific authori...

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 47 quotes

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