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Michael Polanyi

"But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography."

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"Three dimensional time converts scalar waves into transverse waves."

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"Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics."

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"For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction."

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"We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter upthere."

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"Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron."

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"Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle."

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"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."

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"I do not keep up with the details of particle physics."

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"If someone says that he can think or talk about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it."

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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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"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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"The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith."
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"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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"Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness."
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"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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"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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