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Like many features of a landscape, knowledge looks different from different angles. Approach it from an unexpected route, glimpse it from an unusual vantage point, and at first it may not be recognizable.

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To ask questions of the sort which philosophers address to themselves is usually to paralyze the mind...

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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David Bloor

David Bloor

Born: June 28, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: David Bloor is a professor in, and a former director of, the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is a key figure in the Edinburgh School and played a major role in the development of the field of Science and Technology Studies.
Known for:
  1. Knowledge and social imagery (1976)
  2. Wittgenstein, rules and institutions (1997)
  3. Wittgenstein (1983)
  4. Conocimiento E Imaginario Social (1998)

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