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The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual. Herbert Marcuse

Freedom Degree Range Determining Factor Individual Open Human Decisive Human Freedom Choice Chosen

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. Herbert Marcuse

Capitalism Revolution Stage Unlikely Highest Most Appears Necessary

Science is organized knowledge. Herbert Spencer

Knowledge Science Organized

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Herbert Spencer

Those Entered Poetry Pursuits Never Know Scientific Surrounded Which Who

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Herbert Spencer

Kings Divine Get Anyone Means Who Right

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. Herbert Spencer

Ignorance Our Our Lives Shortened Lives Universally

Every cause produces more than one effect. Herbert Spencer

Cause Every More Effect Than Produces

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. Hu Shih

Great Religion Simple First Important Philosopher Philosophers Our Further Ancient Purified Fact Factor Simplified Another Historical Very China Naturalism Agnostic Founder Second Early

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious. Hu Shih

Wish Say Out Religious Entirely Point Wrong Chinese

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. Hu Shih

Strange People First Changes Tools Ways Unavoidable Brought Contact Vehicles New Days Goods Western Commerce Beginnings China Chinese Social Chinese People Social Changes Novel Early

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists. Hu Shih

Today Thought Prominent Atheists Leaders Openly Practically China Agnostic Even

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. Hu Shih

Had Renaissance Periods Been Historically Chinese Many

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. Ian Hacking

Biology Wing Taken Ideas Altering Without Problematic Molecular Things Core

Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these stage settings into clues to a hitherto un-thought series of confrontations out of which, he contends, the orderly structure of society is composed. Ian Hacking

Genius Stage Down Society Settings Else Dramas Out Composed Dress Structure Facts He Go Hitherto Anyone Anyone Else Orderly Which Little Clues Confrontation Them Turn Noticed Series Hardly

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

Knowledge Matter Power Looking Else Relation Entire Something Something Else He Rethink Between New Conception Always How His Subject Subject Matter Trying Interact Want Who Many Two

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

Events Power Analysis Ought Local Battles Know Doing Up Begin Tiny Where Ground Who Level Players

One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. Ian Hacking

Today Science Marvellous Studies Know

Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. Ian Hacking

History World Mind Looking Experiment Radical Changed Changes Our Way Telling Some Followed About Insofar Had He Terms Talking Sciences Said Scientists Were Intellectual Very Tinkering Often The History Of Process Theory Incidents Many Whom Spectacular

Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. Ian Hacking

Past New Becomes Person Us Each

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things. Ian Hacking

Memory People Remember Face Some People Sense Others Way Say Guides Able People Say Some About Clearly Talk Because How Just Form Them Produces Use Help Such Things Agreed Things Image Images Imaging

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