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Michael Polanyi Quotes: 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.
         

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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The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a book be reduced to the ink and paper: something beyond physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

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



Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

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Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

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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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