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Russell Jacoby
(23 Apr 1945 - )
American historian and author.
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Science Quotes by Russell Jacoby (2 quotes)
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
— Russell Jacoby
In Social Amnesia (1975), 25.
The original Marxist notion of ideology was conveniently forgotten because it inconveniently did not exempt common sense and empiricism from the charge of ideology.
— Russell Jacoby
In Social Amnesia (1975), 6-7.
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) -- 
