Articles Quote by Michael Polanyi

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

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

“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

“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

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

— Michael Polanyi

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

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

“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

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell,

— Michael Polanyi

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

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

“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