Chutzpah

The Polanyi Society

"far from being discouraged by it, I find this array of distinguished opponents most heartening, for only a prejudice backed by genius can have obscured such elementary facts as I propose to state here."

     Michael Polanyi, Personal knowledge: towards a post-critical philosophy, pt. 4, chap. 13, sec. 2 ((London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962 [1958]), 382).