Ian Hacking Quotes
- The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
- If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.