It Started With Copernicus Quotes

“I offer an introduction to some of the main writings and debates in the anthology The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology, edited by Keith M. Parsons (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“I offer an introduction to some of the main writings and debates in the anthology The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology, edited by Keith M. Parsons (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003). Stephen Jay Gould's views”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Steve Woolgar develops his views in confrontational style in Science: The Very Idea (London: Tavistock Publications, 1988”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Latour's most ambitious and comprehensive work is Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers through Society (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Latour examines Pasteur and his influence in The Pasteurization of France (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), translated by Alan Sheridan and John Law.”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979; reprinted with new postscript and index in 1986).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“In a letter to the editor of the (now, sadly, defunct) magazine The Sciences (vol. 35”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1926), is still in print eighty years after it was written. I”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“David Young, in his excellent book The Discovery of Evolution, strikes just the right note of balance in our interpretation of science; his words can serve as a coda for this chapter:”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Stephen Jay Gould's 1981 book The Mismeasure of Man is both amusing and horrifying when it recounts how nineteenth century anthropologists pursued craniometry”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Postmodernist literature is vast and highly diverse. From these many writings I have selected two books to examine here: Donna Haraway's Primate Visions (1989) and W. J. T. Mitchell's The Last Dinosaur Book (1998). These two books offer postmodernist analyses of two fields of science that have much popular appeal, primatology and dinosaur paleontology”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“What the students should have done is to point out that Woolgar has set them a task that is by definition impossible. You cannot indicate an object without indicating it, and Woolgar will say that any such act of indicating is a representation. But while it is certainly true that you cannot indicate something without indicating it, it does not follow that indicate-able objects do not exist independently of our representations. Neither does it follow that we can never know objects but only our representations.”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“his more recent writings, Latour claims to have abandoned strict social constructivism. In We Have Never Been Modern (1992), he argues that scientific objects should be regarded as hybrid entities, neither as wholly natural, as scientists view them, nor as mere artifacts, as social constructivism holds”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Latour is not impressed by such litanies of scientific achievement. In 1979, he coauthored, with Steve Woolgar, a book titled Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Drawing out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“His book The Nemesis Affair (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), tells the story of how he and a colleague developed the”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Both books are fun to read, and you learn a lot whichever view you adopt. J. David Archibald's Dinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Most of these take a strong stand and present a case either for or against impact theory. In my opinion, the best of the pro-impact books is James Lawrence Powell's Night Comes to the Cretaceous (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1998). The case against the impact theory is vigorously argued by Charles Officer and Jake Page in The Great Dinosaur Extinction Controversy (Reading, MA: Helix Books, 1996).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Michael Ruse's The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“I offer Nicholas Humphrey's Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation (New York: Copernicus”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“of Kuhn's and other theories of scientific change, see H. E. LeGrand, Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“A good short history of the development of the drift hypothesis and the final emergence of plate tectonics is given in A. Hallam, A Revolution in the Earth Sciences: From Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“recent popular biography by a fine science writer is James Gleick's Isaac Newton (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972).”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Another outstanding work dealing with the rationality of science is Marcello Pera's The Discourses of Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Richard Bernstein's Beyond Objectivism and Relativism”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“I think the best general discussion of scientific rationality is W. H. Newton-Smith's The Rationality of Science (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution

“Though outdated, Carl G. Hempel's Philosophy of Natural Science has never been surpassed (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966)”
― Howard Margolis, It Started With Copernicus: How Turning the World Inside Out Led to the Scientific Revolution