Quotes by Ian Hacking

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.