Theodore Roszak, The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science (1999)

Goethe wondered at what point our instruments might be creating what we think we see out there in the world. ...his question is still a good one. Every science of observation must take care not to get lost among its own artifacts.

— Theodore Roszak

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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