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The mythology
of science asserts that with many different scientists all
asking their own questions and evaluating the answers
independently, whatever personal bias creeps into their
individual answers is cancelled out when the large picture
is put together. This might conceivably be so if scientists
were women and men from all sorts of different cultural and
social backgrounds who came to science with very different
ideologies and interests. But since, in fact, they have been
predominantly university-trained white males from privileged
social backgrounds, the bias has been narrow and the product
often reveals more about the investigator than about the
subject being researched.
-- Ruth Hubbard
1924-, American Biologist
To overturn
orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy,
religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through
which we try to comprehend the world and the society in
which we live.
-- Ruth Hubbard
1924-, American Biologist
We are living
now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early
successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after,
when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has
done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving
unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
Science has
''explained'' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic
the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding
darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963, British Author
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