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" It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences. "
Ian Hacking
Truth
Human
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" Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. "
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" It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. "
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" Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. "
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" The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull. "
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" Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian. "
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" We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images. "
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" I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' "
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" What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power. "
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" Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. "
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" It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. "
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" I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things. "
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" Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. "
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" If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code. "
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" Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. "
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" One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. "
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" Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do. "
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