Michel Foucault Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.

  Michel Foucault

  Knowledge, Science, Essentials

  Michel Foucault (1987). “Maladie Mentale Et Psychologie”, p.73, Univ of California Press

• To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in order to rediscover the play of anticipations or echoes, to go right back to the first seeds or to go forward to the last traces, to reveal in a work its fidelity to tradition or its irreducible uniqueness, to raise or lower its stock of originality, to say that the Port -Royal grammarians invented nothing, or to discover that Cuvier had more predecessors than one thought, these are harmless enough amusements for historians who refuse to grow up.

  Michel Foucault

  Growing Up, Knowledge, Science

• Truth is not by nature free - nor error servile - but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.

  Michel Foucault

  Truth, Science, Errors

  "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

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