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Michel Paul Foucault
(15 Oct 1926 - 25 Jun 1984)
French philosopher.
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Science Quotes by Michel Paul Foucault (3 quotes)
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
— Michel Paul Foucault
Mental Illness and Psychology (1976), trans. Alan Sheridan, 73.
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 Paul Foucault
The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), trans. M. Sheridan Smith (1972), 144.
Truth is not by nature free—nor error servile—its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Paul Foucault
History of Sexuality (1976), trans. Robert Hurley (1978), Vol. 1, 60.
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) -- 
