Cognition Quotes by Gerd Gigerenzer

“The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

“Because these calculations generate precise numbers for an uncertain risk, they produce an illusory certainty.”

— Gerd Gigerenzer

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

— Gerd Gigerenzer

“In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, “Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking…

— Gerd Gigerenzer