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Michael Polanyi Quotes

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

Michael Polanyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Physics Chemistry Determined Laws

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Smile Power Time People Think Way

Finally, after a lot of searching and digging, it was simply the love of family that gave me a road into the character. Once I got into that, and we delved into what it would be like to survive cancer and the ability to see how precious life is, it became easier to play her.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

Life Family Love Character Me Road

In academic life, false ideas are merely false, and useless ones can be fun to play with.

Michael Ignatieff

Life Fun Ideas Play Useless False

I predict you're going to see more and more of this shifting of al Qaeda fighters going over to ISIS because they are the game in town.

Game You Predict More Over See

I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.

Responsibility Feel Always Script

We become what we do.

Chiang Kai-shek

Nothing has been more exciting for me knowing that Ring of Honor is experiencing their best crowds, their best buy rates, and their best merchandise numbers while I'm the champion.

Best Me Champion Honor Numbers Ring

If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

Doing Trying You Wrong Recipe Going

When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.

Brian Stelfreeze

Good Home Alone Art You Artist

If that many people recognize how hard I go every night and what I put into my game, to make myself and my team better, it means a lot to me. I'm fortunate; I'm blessed to be in the situation that I'm in right now.

Myself People Me Team Blessed Night

I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

Peter Mandelson

New Active British Sense Politician

When it comes to translation quality, it's not a question of accuracy but of nuance, especially in fiction. The prose has to read fluidly in fiction, and this is a completely different issue from literal accuracy.

Quality Accuracy Question Fiction

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