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Top 25 Ian Hacking Quotes (2025 Update)

$Ian Hacking Quote: “Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”$

1. “Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.”

2. “Plutonium has a quite extraordinary relationship with people. They made it, and it kills them.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “Statistics began as the systematic study of quantitative facts about the state.”

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

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Ian Hacking Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.”

5. “Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “Acceptance means commitment, among other things.”

6. “Acceptance means commitment, among other things.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.”

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

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Ian Hacking Quote: “Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.”

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

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Ian Hacking Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Ian Hacking Quote: “We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.”

10. “We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”

11. “If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Ian Hacking Quote: “Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

13. “Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Ian Hacking Quote: “Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.”

15. “Thers is this wonderful iconoclast at Rutgers, Doron Zeilberger, who says that our mathematics is the result of a random walk, by which he means what WE call mathematics. Likewise, I think, for the sciences.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!”

16. “Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.”

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

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Ian Hacking Quote: “In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.”

18. “In each case you settle on an act. Doing nothing at all counts as an act.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “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 from the outside.”

19. “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 from the outside.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.”

20. “Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.”

21. “Each of us becomes a new person as we redescribe the past.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “There is no canonical way to think of our own past. In the endless quest for order and structure, we grasp at whatever picture is floating by and put our past into its frame.”

22. “There is no canonical way to think of our own past. In the endless quest for order and structure, we grasp at whatever picture is floating by and put our past into its frame.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.”

23. “By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.”

24. “When land and its tillage are the basis of taxation, one need not care exactly how many people there are.”

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Ian Hacking Quote: “From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.”

25. “From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “We now self-righteously condemn the sexually abusive male. Feminist critics find a lot of hypocrisy in this stance. It allows us to conceal from ourselves that the man’s behavior is only an extreme form of a more commonplace aggression toward women and children that is condoned and even encouraged, both in popular media and within the economic power structure.”

26. “We now self-righteously condemn the sexually abusive male. Feminist critics find a lot of hypocrisy in this stance. It allows us to conceal from ourselves that the man’s behavior is only an extreme form of a more commonplace aggression toward women and children that is condoned and even encouraged, both in popular media and within the economic power structure.”

— Ian Hacking

Ian Hacking Quote: “Any given study seems to prove a lot, but put together, they are so at odds with each other that the net effect is inconclusive.”

27. “Any given study seems to prove a lot, but put together, they are so at odds with each other that the net effect is inconclusive.”

— Ian Hacking

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