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. These premisses or beliefs are embodied in a tradition, the tradition of science.
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either… - Michael Polanyi
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either…
- Michael Polanyi
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… - Michael Polanyi
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…
Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence. - Michael Polanyi
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. - Michael Polanyi
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… - Michael Polanyi
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…
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith. - Michael Polanyi
The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell. - Michael Polanyi
I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness. - Michael Polanyi
Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.
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… - 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 unive…
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