“The #authority of #scientific opinion remains essentially mutual; it is established between #scientists, not above them.” - #MichaelPolanyi, The Republic of #Science

Happy (𝟏𝟏𝟒th) birthday, Melvin #Calvin! 🎂🥳🥳 [°Apr. 8, 1911 – Jan. 8, 1997]🌹😔🕯️

#1961NobelPrizeinChemistry #CalvinCycle #photosynthesis #carbon14isotope #1989NationalMedalofScience #AndrewBenson #JamesBassham #MichaelPolanyi #RoseHerwitz #MelvinEllisCalvin #MelvinCalvin

Happy 134th bday, #MichaelPolanyi. "...to attend from a thing to its meaning is to interiorize it, [and] to look instead at the thing is to exteriorize and alienate it....we endow a thing with meaning by interiorizing it and destroy its meaning by alienating it." #philosophy buff.ly/lkvQBkp