Hungarian - Scientist | March 11, 1891 - February 22, 1976
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
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No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
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Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
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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.
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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.
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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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