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Henri Poincaré declared, of the mathematical calculus of probability, that without it ‘science would be impossible’ (Poincaré, 1952: 186). And Bertrand Russell was equally forthright: ‘we cannot understand scientific method,’ he said,
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“Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”
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“It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food, but I don’t write articles trying to prove it doesn’t exist.”
― Bossypants
― Bossypants
“Only in imaginary experience (in the folk tale, for example), which neutralizes the sense of social realities, does the social world take the form of a universe of possibles equally possible for any possible subject.”
― The Logic of Practice
― The Logic of Practice
“A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”
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“Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.”
― What Is History?
― What Is History?
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