The information in DNA could no more be reduced to the chemical than could the ideas in a … - Michael Polanyi

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Personally, I don't like the term 'success. ' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

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 physics and chemistry encoded DNA.

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

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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.

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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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