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" Great books are rare. "
Ian Hacking
Rare
Books
Great
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" Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them. "
Ian Hacking
Data
Think
Worry
" As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers. "
Ian Hacking
Political
Revolution
Constitution
" One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. "
Ian Hacking
Know
Today
Studies
" 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. "
Ian Hacking
Human
Curiosity
Extraordinary
" One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. "
Ian Hacking
People
Said
Expect
" If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. "
Ian Hacking
Just
Intent
You
" 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. "
Ian Hacking
Future
Corruption
Kind
" It is a general truth that students of language in every era try to colonize some or all of the other human sciences. "
Ian Hacking
Truth
Human
Language
" We do not need to have a way to talk clearly about other people's images. "
Ian Hacking
Talk
Other
Way
" The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun. "
Ian Hacking
Mind
Sun
Science
" Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. "
Ian Hacking
Brain
Most
Will
" Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life. "
Ian Hacking
Understanding
Life
Negative
" A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. "
Ian Hacking
Obscure
Look
You
" Amartya Sen is best known to the general reader for his powerful essays on famine. He is an optimist about some of our gravest economic problems, such as mass starvation in a world that at present can easily produce more food than everyone can eat. Reason and voluntary participation are his watchwords. "
Ian Hacking
World
Best
Food
" Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries. "
Ian Hacking
Women
Birds
Farm
" Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications. "
Ian Hacking
Were
Been
Because
" The debate about who decides what gets taught is fascinating, albeit excruciating for those who have to defend the schools against bunkum. "
Ian Hacking
Against
Taught
Who
" What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power. "
Ian Hacking
Power
Body
Knowledge
" Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things. "
Ian Hacking
Help
Memory
Face
" It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action. "
Ian Hacking
Science
Action
Revolution
" In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. "
Ian Hacking
How
Rules
You
" The stability of what's called the Standard Model of particle physics and its ability to make so many clever predictions with immense precision suggests that we may just be stuck with it, and there may never be an overthrow of that. "
Ian Hacking
Stuck
Clever
Never
" The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work. "
Ian Hacking
Work
Walking
Life
" I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.' "
Ian Hacking
Curiosity
Dilettante
Governing
" Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion. "
Ian Hacking
Too
Science
Like
" Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else. "
Ian Hacking
Power
Want
Knowledge
" Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world. "
Ian Hacking
History
Looking
World
" Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. "
Ian Hacking
New
Each
Us
" All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. "
Ian Hacking
Things
Settling
Matter
" If you are a researcher and want to publish a paper, if you are applying for money either from a private or public foundation, you have to have a DSM code. "
Ian Hacking
Foundation
You
Want