Ian Hacking Quotes

» 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 are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption.

» 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.

» 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.

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"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair." - Patrick Stewart

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