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Michael Polanyi

"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."

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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."

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"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school."

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Asa Don Brown

"And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of one or another administration. I deeply think that is a wrong explanation."

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Asa Don Brown

"It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds."

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Asa Don Brown

"The principles behind explaining and educating the product or the elected official is similar, even though the actual execution of it is very, very different."

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Asa Don Brown

"Every single phenomenon in the world, has a physical explanation underneath it. Finding the explanation depends on how far you are willing to go."

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Asa Don Brown

"The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests."

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Michael Polanyi
"My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated."

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Michael Polanyi
"No inanimate object is ever fully determined by the laws of physics and chemistry."

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Michael Polanyi
"And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry."

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Michael Polanyi
"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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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 by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession."

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Michael Polanyi
"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."

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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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Michael Polanyi
"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language."

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Michael Polanyi
"But the system of prices ruling the market not only transmits information in the light of which economic agents can mutually adjust their actions, it also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money."

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Michael Polanyi
"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."

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