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I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#experience #must #other #our #own

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#commonality #experience #humane #makes #most

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#constitute #exceptional #international #scholars #scientists

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#exciting #exciting thing #most #science #thing

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#actual #biology #chemistry #explanations #founded

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 also provides them with an incentive to exercise economy in terms of money. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#adjust #agents #also #economic #economy

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

— Michael Polanyi

#exercise #framework #human #human beings #intelligence

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 be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#any #data #definite #derived #embodied

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. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#based #cannot #communication #conscious #contrary