Arise Quote by Ian Hacking Download Open image “Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.” — Ian Hacking ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Arise Fractions Ignorance Probability
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Probability is not a mere computation of odds on the dice or more complicated variants; it is the acceptance of the lack of certainty… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
“The difficulties of statistical thinking contribute to the main theme of Part 3, which describes a puzzling limitation of our mind: our excessive confidence… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination. — Arthur Conan Doyle 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
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
In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act. — 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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The financial crisis we are facing today arises from the fact that there is almost no more social, cultural, natural, and spiritual capital left… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first;… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your… — Menachem Mendel of Kotzk Copy Share Image
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first… — John Aubrey Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We need less travelling by jet plaes from congress to congress... but more kneeling and praying and pleading to God to have mercy on… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
An idea or institution may arise for one reason and be maintained for quite a different reason. — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
