While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either….

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 unive….

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

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge..

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 phys….

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness..

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

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for….

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

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

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing..

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 ….

We know more than we can tell..

The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal jud….

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see t….

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. Th….

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian societ….

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….

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual be….

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

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a….