Michel Foucault Quotes

What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

Michel Foucault

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• I'm very interested in science.

  

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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

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• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

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• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

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• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
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• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

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• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
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• Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Survival was the name of the game. Life was so hard that I had to struggle to keep up my standards. Under these conditions, I didn't think about science too much.

  

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• I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
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• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• There has no doubt to be fundamental research in science, but applied research is equally important for new improvements and changes in our techniques.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
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• The enterprise of knowledge is consistent surely with science; it should be with religion, and it is essential for the welfare of the human species.

  

  Carl Sagan
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• The history of science-especially physics-has in part been the tension between the natural tendency to project our everyday experience on the universe and the universe's noncompliance...

  

  Carl Sagan
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• I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while.

  

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• Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On desperate seas long wont to roam,Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,Thy Naiad airs have brought me homeTo the glory that was GreeceAnd the grandeur that was Rome.

  

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• I cook some damn good eggs!

  

  Kevin Durand
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• The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

  

  John Roos
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• What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Science
  • Madness
  • Division