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“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.”
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
― 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.”
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
“Biology taught me that a field undergoing development should be investigated always from the viewpoint of its past development. Who today would study anatomy without embryology? In exactly the same way epistemology without historical and comparative investigations is no more than an empty play on words or an epistemology of the imagination.”
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
“Thoughts pass from one individual to another, each time a little transformed, for each individual can attach to them somewhat different associations. Strictly speaking, the receiver never understands the thought exactly in the way that the transmitter intended it to be understood. After a series of such encounters, practically nothing is left of the original content. Whose thought is it that continues to circulate?”
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
“His basic assumptions were untenable, and his initial experiments irreproducible, yet both were of enormous heuristic value. This is the case with all really valuable experiments. They are all of them uncertain, incomplete, and unique. And when experiments become certain, precise, and reproducible at any time, they no longer are necessary for research purposes proper but function only for demonstration or ad hoc determinations.”
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
― Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact
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