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Ruth Hubbard
American
Scientist
About the author
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
Ruth Hubbard,
American
Scientist
#Experience
#Self
#Theory
#Prophecy
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Ruth Hubbard,
American
Scientist
#World
#Science
#Society
#Religion
#Philosophy
#Economics
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard,
American
Scientist
#Words
#World
#Sensations
#Tradition