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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
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#Interest
#Mess
#Oil
#Would
One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
- Ian Hacking
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#Normal
#People
#Science
#Things
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
#American
#Events
#People
#Revolution
The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
- Ian Hacking
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#Risks
#Social
#Us
#Worry
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
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#Every
#Happens
#Human
#Race
In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
- Ian Hacking
#Behave
#Crazy
#Every
#Generation
#Rules
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
#Care
#Children
#Parents
#Up
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
#Face
#Memory
#People
#Remember
#Way
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
#Curiosity
#Extraordinary
#Human
#World
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
- Ian Hacking
#Curiosity
#Dilettante
#Governing
#Word
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
#Agree
#Mathematics
#Opinion
#Science
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
- Ian Hacking
#Biology
#Core
#Ideas
#Things
#Without
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
#Better
#Constitution
#Political
#True
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
#Fantasy
#Information
#Will
#Worry
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
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#Food
#Problems
#Reason
#World
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
#Ideas
#Mind
#Political
#Science
#Sun
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