Ian Hacking
Biography
Quotes
- Both [Quine and Feyerabend] want to revise a version of positivism. Quine started with the Vienna Circle, and Feyerabend with the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics. Both the Circle and the school have been called children of Ernst Mach; if so, the philosophies of Feyerabend and Quine must be his grandchildren.
- The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
- 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.
