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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
Evelyn Fox Keller

Evelyn Fox Keller is an American physicist, author and feminist. She is Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Keller's early work concentrated at the intersection of physics and biology. Her subsequent research has focused on the history and philosophy of modern biology and on gender and science.

I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism.
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. — © Evelyn Fox Keller
To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth.
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