Ian Hacking Quotes

"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
(Related: Curiosity, World)

"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
(Related: Corruption, Fancy, Future)

"If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser."
- Ian Hacking
(Related: People, Killing)