Science Quotes

"Fast thinking is prone to error."

"Regression surprises us every time."

"Randomness masquerades as skill."

"Economic science divorced from human reality becomes sterile and misleading."

"The brain is a prediction machine. It is constantly trying to anticipate what will happen next."

"Regression to the mean is a powerful force that explains many phenomena we attribute to other causes."

"Illusory correlation makes us see patterns that don't actually exist."

"Observational selection bias causes us to see patterns in data that we've chosen to examine."

"The Weirdest People in the World bias affects how we understand human psychology."

"Our brain uses energy efficiently, which sometimes means it uses shortcuts that lead to errors."

"Statistics are important, but they can mask individual variation and human diversity."

"The correlation between variables is often weaker than our intuitions suggest."

"Science advances when we combine rigorous reasoning with imaginative leaps."

"When we observe the world, we are not objective; we are creators of our own reality."

"Our mind is a marvel of adaptation, but it is also susceptible to systematic errors."

"We are all heuristic creatures in a complex world."

"The mind is an instrument of both enlightenment and deception."

"The mind is both our greatest strength and our greatest weakness."

"The world is complex, and our minds are built for simplicity."

"The mind seeks patterns and meaning even in randomness."

"The mind is a magnificent mystery, and the more we study it, the more mysterious it becomes."

"The human mind is both the source of our greatest achievements and our greatest failures."

"Science without ethical reflection can serve domination rather than human good."

"The mind takes shortcuts that are pretty good, but not always right."

"Psychological experiments rarely measure what they intend to measure."

"People are rarely as naive or as irrational as economists assume."

"Regression to the mean is a pervasive phenomenon that people fail to recognize."

"Correlation is not causation, yet we constantly mistake one for the other."

"Errors of prediction are both inevitable and systematic."

"Cognitive biases are not flaws in our thinking but features of our minds."