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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.

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: Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.

Ian Hacking quotes: Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.

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

Ian Hacking quotes: If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.

Ian Hacking quotes: A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

Ian Hacking quotes: When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.

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

Ian Hacking quotes: Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.

Ian Hacking quotes: Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.

Ian Hacking quotes: Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!

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

Ian Hacking quotes: By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.

Ian Hacking quotes: Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

$Ian Hacking quotes: Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.$ Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

Ian Hacking quotes: The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

Ian Hacking quotes: The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

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.

Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.

Ian Hacking quotes: I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'

Ian Hacking quotes: In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.

In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.