"Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory."

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Source : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.63, Cambridge University Press

Ian Hacking

#Adventure Quotes #Might Quotes #Theory Quotes

“When stress is the basic state of mind, even good things stress us out. We have to learn to let go.”
“Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ...”
“There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.'”
“Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.”
“In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, theres actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, thats their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.”
“Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.”
“Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill.”
“Though I did not know the place, I set out for the land of my dreams. Having arrived at the land of my dreams, I found I did not know the place”

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