The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture.
Steven Shapin Quotes
Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.
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| Birth: | 1943 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Historian, Sociologist |
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Steven Shapin is a historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. Before that, he was a professor of sociology at University of California, San Diego, and at the Science Studies Unit, Edinburgh University.
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