Michael Polanyi
# Michael Polanyi

Michael Polanyi, nascido Polányi Mihály, (Budapeste, 12 de março de 1891 — Northampton, 22 de fevereiro de 1976) foi um polímata húngaro-britânico que fez contribuições teóricas importantes para a físico-química, economia e filosofia.
       - 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.
          - Michael Polanyi in: Life's irreducible structure, (1968)