Ludwik Fleck

Person · Open Library

Born

1896

Died

1961

Works

6

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1958-07-10

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,740x

2. Theory of Microphase Separation in Block Copolymers

   · 1980 · cited 3,421x

3. Strain gradient plasticity: Theory and experiment

   · 1994 · cited 3,364x

4. Silica-Like Malleable Materials from Permanent Organic Networks

   · 2011 · cited 3,329x

5. Solution of the Schrödinger equation by a spectral method

   · 1982 · cited 3,149x

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Quotes

• “At the present time we are so fortunate as to witness the spectacle of the birth, the creation, of a new style of thinking... Sooner or later much will change: the law of causality, the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity. Something else will be demanded from scientific solutions and different problems will be regarded as important. Much that has been proven will be found unproven, and much of what was never proven will turn out to be superfluous.”
• “If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication that it also provides the special 'carrier' for the historical development of any field of thought, as well as for the given stock of knowledge and level of culture. This we have designated thought style.”
• “Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical.”
• “In science, just as in art and in life, only that which is true to culture is true to nature.”
• “Cognition... is not an individual process of any theoretical particular consciousness. Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the existing stock of knowledge exceeds the range available to any individual.”
• “The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.”

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Wikidata facts

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