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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."

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"We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography."

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"I'm very much a lead by example person."

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"Raising a small child as a woman while travelling 10 months out of the year would, I believe, be something I would not be able or even want to do, although with the amazing example of Leila, I am no longer so sure."

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"Be an example, be kind and be simple."

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"Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation."

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"Be an example and open a new way for life."

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"A good example is far better than a good precept."

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"I did have fun, for example, in The Black Hole which was very popular among youngsters."

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"For example, after developing a sound similar to an elephant trumpeting, I wrote the song Elephant Talk which gave my elephant sound an appropriate place to live."

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"There is no teaching to compare with example."

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Amber Hurdle

"May 30 word: Example"People believe a lot more of what they see you do than what they hear you do. That's why it is important that we take the responsibility to set a good, Biblical example. How we live in front of people and even behind closed doors at home is essential to being an effective witness."

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"Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession."
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"Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public."
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"I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell."
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"These maxims and the art of interpreting them may be said to constitute the premisses of science but I prefer to call them our scientific beliefs. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science."
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"I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule."
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