Here are a couple of quotes that fit in with the general ethic of this site. First, the words with which Karl Popper began his classic study The Open Society and Its Enemies:


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French feminist and social theorist Luce Irigaray has issues with Einstein’s theory of relativity:

Is E=Mc² a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged that which goes faster …


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