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Admittedly, the body of scient...

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 47 quotes

But the system of prices rulin...

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 47 quotes

I hold that the propositions e...

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 47 quotes

I shall suggest, on the contra...

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 47 quotes

So long as we use a certain la...

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 47 quotes

The first thing to make clear ...

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 47 quotes

These maxims and the art of in...

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 47 quotes

We could not, for example, arr...

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 47 quotes

And the actual achievements of...

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 47 quotes

No inanimate object is ever fu...

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

We cannot ultimately specify t...

We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

My title is intended to sugges...

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 47 quotes

We could not, for example, arr...

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 47 quotes

These maxims and the art of in...

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 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

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

The first thing to make clear ...

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 47 quotes

So long as we use a certain la...

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 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

No inanimate object is ever fu...

No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.

Michael Polanyi 47 quotes

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