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" In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy. "
Ian Hacking
How
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" I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things. "
Ian Hacking
People
Think
Story
" 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
" Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian. "
Ian Hacking
People
American
Rhetoric
" 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
" Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help. "
Ian Hacking
Great
Golden
Find
" The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school. "
Ian Hacking
Achievement
Children
Parents
" 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
" If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser. "
Ian Hacking
Just
Intent
You
" 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
" Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings. "
Ian Hacking
History
Long
You
" 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. "
Ian Hacking
Seems
Human
Human Race
" Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life. "
Ian Hacking
Life
Sides
Public
" 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
" 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
" All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them. "
Ian Hacking
Things
Settling
Matter
" One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered. "
Ian Hacking
People
Said
Expect
" The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights. "
Ian Hacking
Worry
Social
Bundle
" 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
" Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century. "
Ian Hacking
Brain
Most
Will
" Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self. "
Ian Hacking
Some
Just
Our
" Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do. "
Ian Hacking
Live
Life
Spiritual
" 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
" One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today. "
Ian Hacking
Know
Today
Studies
" One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing. "
Ian Hacking
Doing
Up
Power
" 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
" 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
" Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers. "
Ian Hacking
Possible
Owes
Existence
" Great books are rare. "
Ian Hacking
Rare
Books
Great
" 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
" Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past. "
Ian Hacking
New
Each
Us