Gigerenzer, Gerd

"We would make better decisions if we spent less time on precision and more on understanding."

"Teaching people to question authority through questioning statistics is a form of education."

"In the face of uncertainty, the only rational response is to gather better information."

"Numbers give us power, but power without responsibility leads to abuse."

"The most important conversation about any statistic is the one about its limitations."

"Resilience comes from understanding that variation and uncertainty are facts of life."

"A lie told with statistics is still a lie, but harder to recognize as such."

"The future belongs to those who can think about risk and uncertainty clearly."

"Numbers are the universal language of the modern world; not understanding them is illiteracy."

"The art of living well is largely the art of managing risk and uncertainty wisely."

"When we teach statistics as a subject rather than as a way of thinking, we have failed."

"The most valuable advice is often the simplest, which is why it's so often ignored."

"Understanding risk is understanding freedom; without it, we are prisoners of fear."

"The democratization of statistical literacy is one of the great unfinished projects of education."

"Numbers are not truth, they are tools for approaching truth; this distinction matters."

"A person who understands their own uncertainty is someone who can truly listen to others."

"The best leaders are those who can make decisions despite uncertainty, not those who claim certainty."

"We are all living experiments in probability; the question is whether we're conscious of it."

"Statistical thinking is as important to citizenship as the ability to read."