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The pure and simple truth is never pure and rarely simple.

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Recently drunk a lot last night. I’m surprised at the fact that I discovered my high tolerance for heavy liquor. . . as long as they’re in a goddamn cocktail.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde

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A similar distinction-making role is played by understandings that science is discovered rather than made. We have always known that making scientific knowledge involves things like the construction and plying of instruments, the mobilization and evaluation of testimony, the making of textual and visual representations, and the persuasive techniques used in winning credibility for claims made. What we have not always appreciated is the historical interest of such things, that all these things, and many more aspects of mundane practice, constitute the human and material stuff out of which scientific knowledge is produced, and that they themselves work to secure the idea of scientific knowledge as discovered rather than invented

Steven Shapin, Never Pure, page 57.

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