Ian Hacking Quotes
Top 17 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Ian Hacking on Wise Famous 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.
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.
Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.