Scientisme et sciences sociales Quotes

“The idea that science breaks up and replaces the system of classification which our sense qualities represent is less familiar, yet this is precisely what Science does. . . . This process of re-classifying “objects” which our senses have already classified in one way, of substituting for the “secondary” qualities in which our senses arrange external stimuli a new classification based on consciously established relations between classes of events is, perhaps, the most characteristic aspect of the procedure of the natural sciences. The whole history of modern Science proves to be a process of progressive emancipation from the innate classification of the external stimuli till in the end they completely disappear.”
― Friedrich A. Hayek, Scientisme et sciences sociales: Essai sur le mauvais usage de la raison