Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory.
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas. - Ian Hacking
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
- Ian Hacking
The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is a… - Ian Hacking
The bad player is the one who tries to calculate and play with the odds, as if his game, his life, were one of a large number of games. To do so is a…
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state. - Ian Hacking
Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance. - Ian Hacking
Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.
There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it fr… - Ian Hacking
There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to problems that are forced on it fr…
Acceptance means commitment, among other things. - Ian Hacking
Acceptance means commitment, among other things.
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'. - Ian Hacking
A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea. - Ian Hacking
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do. - Ian Hacking
The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.
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