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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.

~Ian Hacking

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Risk analysis can cater to any sort of hazard, but their profession owes its existence to a relatively narrow band of possible dangers.

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Brain science will be the most popular science of the early twenty-first century.

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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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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.

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Although some secrecy is odious, some is essential just to preserve our sense of self.

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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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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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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 18th, 1936

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