Michael Polanyi Quotes

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

Michael Polanyi

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• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Couple
  • Difficult
  • Now

• A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Simple

• You know among people who kind of travel a lot and have exposure to the United States and some other countries, they do have accounts, but you know, Russia is not exactly the place with multiple language skills so local networks kind of have an edge.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Travel
  • Language

• Life is always a problem. The fact that I'm on the radio saying that I don't necessarily see hope does not relieve people, does not relieve my son, does not relieve children, of the responsibility to struggle.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Life
  • Practice
  • Mental

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Comedy

• I believe in music because it has the power of change.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Power

• Having children with someone is the real bond.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Children
  • Real
  • Parenting

• In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dramatic change in our lives.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Husband

• Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • She
  • Truth
  • Perfect

• It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Boat

• Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Mom

• Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • Why
  • Power

• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • House
  • Garden

• Wit is cultured insolence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Wit
  • Insolence
  • Cultured

• Gray space is fertile ground for fiction. When I can see both sides of an argument and feel strongly in both directions, then there's a story there, then I can write real characters that I care about and believe in and champion on both sides.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Space

• God made all pleasures innocent.

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Pleasure
  • Innocent

• In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your career so that you can give the most back. Try to be an addict, driven to achieve discoveries, learning new things, and then writing about them.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Career

• The knowledge that she was needed by something living, that she could benefit another creature, produce happiness, or contentment, or just a feeling of security - somehow it filled a part of her as nothing else had.

  

  Connie Brockway
  • She
  • Knowledge
  • Part

• It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • History
  • Minds
  • Escape

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

  

  Michael Polanyi
  • Knowledge
  • Possibility
  • Discovery