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Ludwik Fleck
(11 Jul 1896 - 5 Jul 1961)
Polish-Israeli physician and microbiologist whose concept of Denkkollektiv (thought collectives or thought styles) seeks to explain the mode of evolution of scientific ideas.
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Science Quotes by Ludwik Fleck (2 quotes)
If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.
— Ludwik Fleck
Genesis and the Development of a Scientific Fact (1935), 39.
The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.
— Ludwik Fleck
Genesis and the Development of a Scientific Fact (1935), 41.
See also:
- 11 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Fleck's birth.
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.
(1987) -- 
