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

- Ian Hacking

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

- 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

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

Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.

- Ian Hacking

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

- Ian Hacking

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

- Ian Hacking

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.

- Ian Hacking

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

- Ian Hacking