Canadian - Philosopher | February 18, 1936 -
The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
Ian Hacking
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.
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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.
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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.
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If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
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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.
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Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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