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“It is a virtue, I came to believe long ago, not to make a meal out of one's emotional life. There's always enough work to do, not to mention that there's world enough outside.”
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“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".”
― The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance
― The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance
“Facts are often faint and flickering. They are the achievements of subtle investigations that must painstakingly stabilize evanescent effects or ingeniously combine several strands of evidence into a strong, weight-bearing cord. Above all, as their etymology suggests, [...] the most interesting and useful facts are not given but made, artifacts in the best sense of the word.”
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“[S]cience, to [Walter] Lippmann, embodied a deep awareness of the irrationality and partiality of all human beings, which led its possessors to oppose the will to dominate wherever it appeared.”
― Science, Democracy, and the American University
― Science, Democracy, and the American University
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