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

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Michael Polanyi

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

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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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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

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We know more than we can tell.

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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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