- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
- Extraordinary
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
- Dilettante
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed.
- Interest
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great books are rare.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020