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“Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.”

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The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

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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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Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

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One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted…

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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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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We…

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Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.

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In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

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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,…

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As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding…

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