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\u201cIt is the height of intellectual perversity to renounce, in the name of scientific objectivity, our position as the highest form of life on earth, and our own advent by a process of evolution as the most important problem of evolution\u201d<\/span> (Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension<\/i> (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967) p.47). <\/div>\n
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