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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. "
Ian Hacking
Teach
Public
Evolution
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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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" Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life. "
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" In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. "
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" Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries. "
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" Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption. "
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" Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life. "
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" Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality. "
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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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Body
Knowledge
" It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences. "
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Human
Language
" Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion. "
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Like
" The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work. "
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Walking
Life
" The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that. "
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Never
" 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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Human Race
" Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. "
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Each
Us
" 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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People
American
Rhetoric
" The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school. "
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Children
Parents
" Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications. "
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Been
Because
" One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing. "
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Doing
Up
Power
" If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. "
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Just
Intent
You
" I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences. "
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Curiosity
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" I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' "
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" Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords. "
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Best
Food
" One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. "
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" Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing. "
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" Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. "
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Will
" Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. "
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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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" Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them. "
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Think
Worry
" The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights. "
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