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> [“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”19”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/in-the-words-of-the-english-philosopher-alfred-north-whitehead/)

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## More by Gerd Gigerenzer

> [“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/the-most-interesting-information-comes-from-children-for-they-tell-2/)

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> [Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/great-thinkers-often-learn-to-their-surprise-that-new-ideas-are-less/)

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> [“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/because-these-calculations-generate-precise-numbers-for-an-uncertain/)

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> [We have to learn to live with uncertainty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/we-have-to-learn-to-live-with-uncertainty/)

[Gerd Gigerenzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gerd-gigerenzer/)

> [Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/cognition-requires-going-beyond-the-information-given-to-make-bets/)

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> [I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/i-focus-on-the-most-important-form-of-innumeracy-in-everyday-life/)

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> [“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gerd-gigerenzer/in-the-words-of-the-english-philosopher-alfred-north-whitehead/)

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