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Louis Althusser
(16 Oct 1918 - 22 Oct 1990)
philosopher who was a member of the French Communist Party, and was a structural Marxist in his writings. After wartime internment as a prisoner of war, he suffered manic depression throughout his life.
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Science Quotes by Louis Althusser (1 quote)
Marx founded a new science: the science of history. … The sciences we are familiar with have been installed in a number of great “continents”. Before Marx, two such continents had been opened up to scientific knowledge: the continent of Mathematics and the continent of Physics. The first by the Greeks (Thales), the second by Galileo. Marx opened up a third continent to scientific knowledge: the continent of History.
— Louis Althusser
In Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Writings (1971), 4.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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