"Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge."

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Source : Ludwik Fleck (1981). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

Ludwik Fleck

#Cognition Quotes

“I'm always like that about everything. When I try to do something, I always think, "What is the best way to do this?" Instead of taking what everyone else says and how it has been forever, it's faster for me to try myself. Of course I listen to what everybody says, and at first I'll try what people say, but I always come back to trying it my way.”

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“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”

Source : "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Essay by James F. Cooper, 1838.
“The true face of the unions is not now a man in a hard hat as much as it is a woman in a classroom or in cleaning smocks.”
“People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.”
“Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.”
“The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the birth control movement began, such a separation was widely considered immoral. The eventual widespread public acceptance of birth control required a major reorientation of sexual values.”

Source : Linda Gordon (2002). “The Moral Property of Women: A History of Birth Control Politics in America”, p.1, University of Illinois Press
“As we practice the work of forgiveness we discover more and more that forgiveness and healing are one.”
“Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.”

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