Michael Polanyi Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: hungarian
  • Birth: March 11, 1891 - February 22, 1976

Topics

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That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

John Fogerty

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Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.

John Lee Hancock

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What I remember most vividly was the sense of always being a little behind the other kids in class - that sense of I wasn't cut out for class or I wasn't cut out to read.

John Hickenlooper

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

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I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

Tom Jenkinson

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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room.

Roseanne Barr

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I don't know of many people who've done sex research with an eye toward people saying sex is bad for you, except for the promiscuity and cervical cancer link - which is actually a valid discovery.

Mary Roach

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I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.

Lleyton Hewitt

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My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Davy Jones

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I never thought I would run for office.

Pramila Jayapal

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What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

Richard Wilbur

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Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this, you often create a more negative reaction than if you hadn't told a story at all. That's because others can see that you're just going through the motions.

Mark Goulston

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