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Richard Lewontin Quotes

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I’m a cautious optimist Picture Quote #1

An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It’s not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That’s butterfly collecting Picture Quote #1

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one’s autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is Picture Quote #1

When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means Picture Quote #1

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen Picture Quote #1

If you can’t write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you Picture Quote #1

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We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things Picture Quote #1

In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there’s no way to demonstrate that it’s false Picture Quote #1

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually Picture Quote #1

If we’re going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that’s not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in Picture Quote #1

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that’s not the point at all Picture Quote #1

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I’m a cautious optimist Picture Quote #1

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Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I’m a cautious optimist. (Richard Lewontin Quotes) An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It’s not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That’s butterfly collecting. (Richard Lewontin Quotes) The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one’s autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is (Richard Lewontin Quotes) When the wrong question is being asked, it usually turns out to be because the right question is too difficult. Scientists ask questions they can answer. That is, it is often the case that the operations of a science are not a consequence of the problematic of that science, but that the problematic is induced by the available means (Richard Lewontin Quotes) To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen (Richard Lewontin Quotes) If you can’t write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you (Richard Lewontin Quotes) We do have tendency, now in biology especially to make up stories, to make theoretical biology a kind of game, in fact we have game theory in biology which is meant to use the theory of games to make predictions or explain things (Richard Lewontin Quotes) In my mind the job of a natural scientist is to bend over backwards to say something which can be demonstrated to be true or at least which is not of such a nature that there’s no way to demonstrate that it’s false (Richard Lewontin Quotes) In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually (Richard Lewontin Quotes) If we’re going to make a politically responsible and a scientifically sensible claim it should not be stop the world exactly where it is because that’s not possible. It has to be to decide what kind of world do we as human beings want to live in (Richard Lewontin Quotes) I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that’s not the point at all (Richard Lewontin Quotes) Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I’m a cautious optimist (Richard Lewontin Quotes)