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. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, ‘power’ and ‘knowledge.’ As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his ‘knowledge’ and ‘power’ are to be something else. Ian Hacking Read Quote
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don’t know what they are doing. Ian Hacking Read Quote
If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code. Ian Hacking Read Quote
What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power. Ian Hacking Read Quote
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. Ian Hacking Read Quote
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. Ian Hacking Read Quote