The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely co…

- Ludwik Fleck

Cognition is ... not an individual process of any theoretical "particular conciousness." Rather it is the result of a social activity, since the exis…

- Ludwik Fleck

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the cu…

- Ludwik Fleck

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

- Ludwik Fleck

If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implic…

- Ludwik Fleck