Michel Foucault Quotes
What is constitutive is the action that divides madness, and not the science elaborated once this division is made.
Michel Foucault
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Ada Yonath
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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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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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'Some,' answered Imlac, 'have indeed said that the soul is material, but I can scarcely believe that any man has thought it, who knew how to think; for all the conclusions of reason enforce the immateriality of mind, and all the notices of sense and investigations of science, concur to prove the unconsciousness of matter.
Samuel Johnson
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Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
H. L. Mencken
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My interests started about in science and in mathematics; I always thought I was going to be a mathematician.
David Chalmers
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I would designate as science fiction in the best sense: they are visions and anticipations by which we seek to attain a true knowledge, but, in fact, they are only imaginations whereby we seek to draw near to the reality.
Pope Benedict XVI
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I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.
Adena Friedman
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Edward Thorndike
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Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than anyone expects.
Bonnie Hammer
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Which of us, then, does not offend frequently with our tongue? The real problem, however, is not our tongues but our hearts.
Jerry Bridges
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I remember when I met Picabo Street, you know, how in awe I was of her and how much she inspired me, and I really hope to be that for young kids.
Lindsey Vonn
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Bush is the Liberace of Cuban politics. He knows how to play us. He says every single thing they want to hear.
Joe Garcia
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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
