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Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

Scientists construct facts by constantly making decisions about what they will consider significant, what experiments they should pursue, and how they will describe their observations.

Ruth Hubbard
Decision, Facts, Scientist
Ruth Hubbard, Elijah Wald (1993). “Exploding the Gene Myth: How Genetic Information is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers”, p.7, Beacon Press

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Ruth Hubbard
Self, Order, Framework
Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

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
Real, World, Tradition
Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

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
Philosophy, Science, Discipline
Ruth Hubbard, Mary Sue Henifin, Barbara Fried (1982). “Biological woman--the convenient myth: a collection of feminist essays and a comprehensive bibliography”, Schenkman Books

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