Polanyi Quotes & Sayings
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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. —
John Charles Polanyi

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence. —
Michael Polanyi

Idealism is the highest form of reason. —
John Charles Polanyi

For science must breathe the oxygen of freedom. —
John Charles Polanyi

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal. —
John Charles Polanyi

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge. —
John Charles Polanyi

Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights. —
John Charles Polanyi

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing. —
Michael Polanyi

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. —
John Charles Polanyi

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. —
John C. Polanyi

Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. —
John C. Polanyi

In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons. —
John Charles Polanyi

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

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

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. —
John Charles Polanyi

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. —
John Charles Polanyi

The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end. —
John Charles Polanyi

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy. —
John Charles Polanyi

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much. —
John Charles Polanyi

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science. —
John Charles Polanyi

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. —
John Charles Polanyi

Science is a collection of stories, linking characters worthy of notice. —
John Charles Polanyi

the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal; —
Karl Polanyi

The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly. —
John Charles Polanyi

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight. —
John Charles Polanyi

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey. —
John Charles Polanyi

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

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts. —
John Charles Polanyi

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge. —
Michael Polanyi

Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing. —
John Charles Polanyi

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor. —
Karl Polanyi

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them. —
John Charles Polanyi