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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.

~Michael Polanyi

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

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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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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 judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

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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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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.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Scientist

Born: March 11th, 1891

Died: February 22nd, 1976

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