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Ian Hacking Quotes

Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them Picture Quote #1

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas Picture Quote #1

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea Picture Quote #1

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology Picture Quote #1

$Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance Picture Quote #1$

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state Picture Quote #1

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! Picture Quote #1

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create Picture Quote #1

From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas Picture Quote #1

When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are Picture Quote #1

Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory Picture Quote #1

Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption Picture Quote #1

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it Picture Quote #1

There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside Picture Quote #1

Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology Picture Quote #1

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences Picture Quote #1

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be Picture Quote #1

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Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them. (Ian Hacking Quotes) Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas (Ian Hacking Quotes) The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea (Ian Hacking Quotes) Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology (Ian Hacking Quotes) Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance (Ian Hacking Quotes) Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state (Ian Hacking Quotes) Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! (Ian Hacking Quotes) We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create (Ian Hacking Quotes) From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas (Ian Hacking Quotes) When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are (Ian Hacking Quotes) Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory (Ian Hacking Quotes) Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption (Ian Hacking Quotes) Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it (Ian Hacking Quotes) There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it from the outside (Ian Hacking Quotes) Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology (Ian Hacking Quotes) I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences (Ian Hacking Quotes) Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be (Ian Hacking Quotes)