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Michael Polanyi has 26 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of…
• And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same…
• No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry.
• We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being…
• I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,
• The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
• While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is…
• Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.
• Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.
• But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.
• Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
• Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

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