Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
Ian HackingMolecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Ian HackingThers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.
Ian Hacking