Elari

“The explanation given to any relation can survive and develop within a given society only if this explanation is stylized in conformity with the prevailing thought style.”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

“In science, just as in art and in life, only that which is true to culture is true to nature.”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

“This social character inherent in the very nature of scientific activity is not without its substantive consequences. Words which formerly were simple terms become slogans; sentences which once were simple statements become calls to battle. This completely alters their socio-cogitative value. They no longer influence the mind through their logical meaning – indeed, they often act against it – but rather they acquire a magical power and exert a mental influence simply by being used.”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

“Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?”
― Ludwik Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact