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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 Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.

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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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• ‟ Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

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• ‟ Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

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• ‟ The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

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• ‟ It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.

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• ‟ Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

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