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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

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Knowledge,

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John Charles Polanyi
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Category: Knowledge

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
  • 2. My parents got married late and they had kids late so I never felt a social or cultural thing to be married or pregnant or a homeowner by a certain age.
  • 3. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together and the rock industry we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we're such an amazing race.
  • 2. Well I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself that when I got on the cover it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
  • 3. New Orleans in an amazing town.

3 Anger

  • 1. I was shocked at the anger toward me.
  • 2. So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me because I'm happy that I have them I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside like anger.
  • 3. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 2. As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.
  • 3. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every time a student walks past a really urgent expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college it can help reassure him that he does have that mind does have that soul.
  • 2. Liquid architecture. It's like jazz – you improvise you work together you play off each other you make something they make something. And I think it's a way of – for me it's a way of trying to understand the city and what might happen in the city.
  • 3. I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
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