"To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth."

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Source: Evelyn Keyes (1978). “Scarlett O'Hara's Younger Sister: My Lively Life in and Out of Hollywood”, Fawcett Books

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Evelyn Fox Keller

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Evelyn Fox Keller is a prominent feminist scholar and physicist known for her work on gender and science, particularly in her influential book 'Reflections on Gender and Science.'

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"I believe in truths, but I don't believe in the Truth. Furthermore, I think that vision of an underlying Truth, with as capital T, that scientists are privy to, has been a very counterproductive vision. It has served scientists very well, but what it has done, above all, is encloses the world of science and immunize it from criticism."

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