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Ian Hacking [1936-0] Canadian

Ian MacDougall Hacking, born February 18, 1936, is a Canadian philosopher specializing in the philosophy of science. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards, such as the Killam Prize for the Humanities and the Balzan Prize, and been a member of many prestigious groups, including the Order of Canada, the Royal Society of Canada and the British Academy.

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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.		101
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.		102
I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'		103
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.		104
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.		105
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.		106
Molecular biology has routinely taken problematic things under its wing without altering core ideas.		107

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