Quote by Clifford Geertz
Im writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it

Im writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and its about social constructionism. So I would say Im a social constructionist, whatever that means. – Clifford Geertz

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Beauty
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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isnt a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. – Clifford Geertz

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Knowledge
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I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. – Clifford Geertz

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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man. – Jacob Bronowski

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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. – Michael Behe

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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded. – Paul Nurse

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Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. – Charles Babbage

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I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science. – Paul Nurse

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Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. – Benjamin Spock, Baby and Child Care, 1977

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless. – Robert H. Schuller

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It is better to know what to fear than to say no fear. – Tim Fargo

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