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• ‟ If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

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• ‟ I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

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• ‟ One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

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• ‟ We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images.

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• ‟ Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.

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