"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the……" — John Charles Polanyi
"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
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44 Quotes by John Charles Polanyi
John Charles Polanyi has 44 quotes on this site.
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
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The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color.
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It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because…
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I knew, however, that it would cost ten times what I had available in order to build a molecular beam…
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping…
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Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will…
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Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any,…
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Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.
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The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment…
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Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights.
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Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century…
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More Conditioned Quotes
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
— Russell Baker
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Liberty isn't liberalism, arbitrariness, but it's connected; it's conditioned by the great values of love and solidarity and in general…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in…
— Annie Besant
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Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this…
— Joyce Brothers
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity…
— James Allen
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The better conditioned team will probably win in the long run.
— John Wooden
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We may not be the best conditioned team in the country, but our players think they are.
— John Wooden
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From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history,…
— Carl Jung
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Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not…
— Stephen Covey
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Spirituality belongs to the eternal, and religion belongs to the temporal. Religion belongs to people's behavior. It is really what…
— Rajneesh
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Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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