Cases Quote by Ian Hacking Download Open image “In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.” — Ian Hacking ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cases Doing nothing Settling
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
...not deciding to act would be identical with deciding not to act. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules. — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“Labels such as ‘‘the culture wars,’’ ‘‘the science wars,’’ or ‘‘the Freud wars’’ are now widely used to refer to some of the disagreements… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to… — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
You gonna take the case?" It's not a case. It's a missing person. Sort of." You're gonna have a devil of a time finding… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of a few… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image