Discovery Quote by Michael Polanyi Download Open image “Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.” — Michael Polanyi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Discovery Knowledge Learning Made Possibility Research
There are almost unlimited possibilities for making discoveries and to uncover the unknown. It is in the nature of the discovery that it can… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Advances are Made by Answering Questions. Discoveries are Made by Questioning Answers. — Bernard Haisch Copy Share Image
Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery;… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Scientific discoveries and innovation come from combining different existing technologies and different perspectives in a unique way. — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an… — Bengt I. Samuelsson Copy Share Image
The man who is striving to solve a problem defined by existing knowledge and technique is not, however, just looking around. He knows what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries. — Lev Landau Copy Share Image
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries — John Herschel 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
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Throughout my work, I have assumed that the standard model is correct, and hence, the Higgs boson should be found. Although this is not… — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
There is usually no dreamer so unworldly as the anthologist. He wanders in a vast garden, lost in wonder, unable to decide often between… — Mary Webb Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
When we look at the love of Christ, we make a wonderful discovery. Love is more a decision than an emotion! Christ-like love applauds… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In December of 2007 human bones including skulls, which have been radiocarbon dated back to between 1304 and 1424, were found in a museum… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
