Defined Quote by Michael Polanyi Download Open image “But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.” — Michael Polanyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defined Physics Topography
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Physics is the belief that a simple and consistent description of nature is possible. — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
If you look at anything physical, you find out that at the quantum level, it is non-physical. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Mathematical physics is in the first place physics and it could not exist without experimental investigations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I should consider that I know nothing about physics if I were able to explain only how things might be, and were unable to… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical. — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“A steady recognition that the evils which prevent the fullness of moral development are precisely the elements which are also the source of the… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Christianity sedulously fosters, and in a sense permanently satisfies, man's craving for mental dissatisfaction by offering him the comfort of a crucified God.” — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“Sartre puts it, value arises simply from our choices. What we choose, we value simply because we have chosen it (and apparently we remain… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell, — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
“It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that. — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline… — Robert Gilpin Copy Share Image
One of the noblest words in our language is "grace," defined as "unearned blessing." We live by grace far more than by anything else.… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Marriage and the creation of families has been an integral part of our society since its creation; it should not be defined without the… — Robert Foster Bennett Copy Share Image
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't… — Athol Fugard Copy Share Image
If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
