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Quotation of the Day for August 26, 2010



"And what these stories stipulate is that the truth-seeker is someone who attains truth by denying the demands of the stomach and, more generally, of the body."

- Steven Shapin, from Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge.

[http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/WritingScience/etexts/Shapin/SCIENCE_INCARNATE.html]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Aug. 19, 2010

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