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    Neil deGrasse Tyson‏Verified account @neiltyson 4 Sep 2017

    In school, rarely do we learn how data become facts, how facts become knowledge, and how knowledge becomes wisdom.

    5:20 PM - 4 Sep 2017
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      2. Paul Doherty‏ @ReddingBobulus 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        Epistemology, like the rest of Philosophy, is something that a lot more people should know.

        13 replies 43 retweets 550 likes
      3. Jeremiah Pietroniro‏ @hekebolos 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @ReddingBobulus @neiltyson

        Lol. Can we ever really know epistemology?

        5 replies 10 retweets 160 likes
      4. Paul Doherty‏ @ReddingBobulus 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @hekebolos @neiltyson

        Good point, but if so then can we ever know anything? And if then can we ever do anything?

        9 replies 2 retweets 111 likes
      5. Jeremiah Pietroniro‏ @hekebolos 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @ReddingBobulus @neiltyson

        I jest, of course. Knowing epistemology is like living the living of life. Not a critique, just noting the linguistic joy of infinite loops.

        2 replies 2 retweets 50 likes
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      2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        No offense, @neiltyson, but this is LITERALLY the kind of thing we in the history of science/science & technology studies endeavor to teach.

        13 replies 41 retweets 628 likes
      3. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @wellerstein @neiltyson

        If you are ever interested, I would be happy to tell you about our field and what it does! We have studied these questions a long time!

        3 replies 7 retweets 225 likes
      4. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @wellerstein @neiltyson

        And we continue to study them! It is an active, vibrant field of research. With conferences and journals and everything! It's good stuff!

        2 replies 3 retweets 196 likes
      5. Jarno Verhoofstad‏ @jverhoofstad 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @wellerstein @neiltyson

        You're a shining example Alex. But as a high school teacher I know this stuff is both nuanced and complex.

        1 reply 0 retweets 35 likes
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      2. living in the future‏ @LITFmag 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-history-of-data-is-the-history-of-labor/ …

        4 replies 18 retweets 102 likes
      3. living in the future‏ @LITFmag 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @LITFmag @neiltyson

        ""Data isn’t truth, but language. It can help us decide or express the truth, but data never is the truth"

        11 replies 34 retweets 133 likes
      4. Christine Olsen‏ @chrisolsen99 4 Sep 2017
        Replying to @LITFmag

        Who are you quoting?

        1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
      5. living in the future‏ @LITFmag 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @chrisolsen99

        https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/the-history-of-data-is-the-history-of-labor/ …

        0 replies 4 retweets 31 likes
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      2. Alex Wellerstein‏Verified account @wellerstein 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @neiltyson

        This is like an English professor saying, "rarely do we think about why stars shine." It implies there aren't disciplines devoted to this!

        2 replies 8 retweets 174 likes
      3. Conor Quinn‏ @teiscinn 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @wellerstein @neiltyson

        I think he was mostly saying that we are not taught enough from/about these disciplines, and was not implying they don't exist.

        1 reply 1 retweet 13 likes
      4. Phil Zona‏ @philzona 5 Sep 2017
        Replying to @teiscinn @wellerstein @neiltyson

        Everyone takes English and history classes, I don't think the problem is that people don't know about the humanities

        3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      5. Conor Quinn‏ @teiscinn 6 Sep 2017
        Replying to @philzona @wellerstein @neiltyson

        Re-read his original statement: it implies that most people's humanities course experience doesn't adequately cover these particular issues.

        1 reply 0 retweets 12 likes
      6. Phil Zona‏ @philzona 6 Sep 2017
        Replying to @teiscinn @wellerstein @neiltyson

        Sure, that's one reading. I don't agree with it though

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      7. Conor Quinn‏ @teiscinn 8 Sep 2017
        Replying to @philzona @wellerstein @neiltyson

        I agree that upper-level humanities do offer exactly this, & quite well: it's just that most people (B.A. or not) don't get access to it.

        0 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
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