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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.

- Michael Polanyi
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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.

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.

Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

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.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

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.

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.

Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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