Posted: Sep 01, 2010 8:52 pm
In another revealing passage, Michael Polanyi writes:
"The recognition of certain basic impossibilities has laid the foundations of some major principles of physics and chemistry; similarly, recognition of the impossibility of understanding living things in terms of physics and chemistry, far from setting limits to our understanding of life, will guide it in the right direction. And even if the demonstration of this impossibility should prove of no great advantage in the pursuit of discovery, such a demonstration would help to draw a truer image of life and man than that given us by the present basic concepts of biology."[1]
Or my favorite:
"I differ ... most from biologists[evolutionists], by holding that no mechanism-be it a machine or a machine-like feature of an organism-can be represented in terms of physics and chemistry."[2]
References:
[1] Life's irreducible structure Michael Polanyi, science
[2]'Life Transcending Physics and Chemistry' (Chemical and Engineering News, August 21, 1967.)
"The recognition of certain basic impossibilities has laid the foundations of some major principles of physics and chemistry; similarly, recognition of the impossibility of understanding living things in terms of physics and chemistry, far from setting limits to our understanding of life, will guide it in the right direction. And even if the demonstration of this impossibility should prove of no great advantage in the pursuit of discovery, such a demonstration would help to draw a truer image of life and man than that given us by the present basic concepts of biology."[1]
Or my favorite:
"I differ ... most from biologists[evolutionists], by holding that no mechanism-be it a machine or a machine-like feature of an organism-can be represented in terms of physics and chemistry."[2]
References:
[1] Life's irreducible structure Michael Polanyi, science
[2]'Life Transcending Physics and Chemistry' (Chemical and Engineering News, August 21, 1967.)