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> [“If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/if-you-want-to-get-people-to-believe-something-really-really-stupid/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

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## More by Charles Seife

> [“A bad idea, a wrong piece of information, a digital brain-altering virus can spread at the speed of light through the internet and quickly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/a-bad-idea-a-wrong-piece-of-information-a-digital-brain-altering/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“The key to a black hole's strange properties is the way it curves space-time. A black hole takes up no space at all, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/the-key-to-a-black-hole-s-strange-properties-is-the-way-it-curves/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“In string theory, zero has been banished from the universe; there is no such thing as zero distance or zero time. This solves all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/in-string-theory-zero-has-been-banished-from-the-universe-there-is-no/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Zero and infinity are eternally locked in a struggle to engulf all the numbers. Like a Manichaean nightmare, the two sit on opposite poles…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/zero-and-infinity-are-eternally-locked-in-a-struggle-to-engulf-all/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Skinnerian conditioning, crossed with social pressure, is now an ever-present invisible hand that tries to manipulate all of your actions on the internet. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/skinnerian-conditioning-crossed-with-social-pressure-is-now-an-ever/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“In 1933, the Indian Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar realized that the Pauli exclusion principle had only a limited ability to fight against the squeeze of gravity.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/in-1933-the-indian-subrahmanyan-chandrasekhar-realized-that-the-pauli/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“We tend to shy away from data that challenges our assumptions, that erodes our preconceptions. Getting rid of our wrong ideas is a painful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/we-tend-to-shy-away-from-data-that-challenges-our-assumptions-that/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Banishing zero also solves the infinity problems in general relativity. If you imagine a black hole as a string, no longer do objects fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/banishing-zero-also-solves-the-infinity-problems-in-general/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“With news and data that is tailored to our prejudices, we deprive ourselves of true information. We wind up wallowing in our own false…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/with-news-and-data-that-is-tailored-to-our-prejudices-we-deprive/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [ “Digital information has an unbelievably high R0 \[basic reproductive rate\], and this means that it's hard to stop once it emerges. It spreads from… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/digital-information-has-an-unbelievably-high-r0-basic-reproductive/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Christianity initially rejected zero, but trade would soon demand it. The man who reintroduced zero to the West was Leonardo of Pisa. The son…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/christianity-initially-rejected-zero-but-trade-would-soon-demand-it/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Zero dwells at the juxtaposition of quantum mechanics and relativity; zero lives where the two theories meet, and zero causes the two theories to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/zero-dwells-at-the-juxtaposition-of-quantum-mechanics-and-relativity/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Though the Casimir force-a mysterious, phantom force exerted by nothing at all-seems like science fiction, it exists. It is a tiny force and very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/though-the-casimir-force-a-mysterious-phantom-force-exerted-by/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“Bad information is a disease that attacks the brain. It messes with your head, making you do things that you shouldn't, causing you to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/bad-information-is-a-disease-that-attacks-the-brain-it-messes-with/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

> [“In the battle between Kronecker and Cantor, Cantor would ultimately prevail. Cantor's theory would show that Kronecker's precious integers-and even the rational numbers-were nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-seife/in-the-battle-between-kronecker-and-cantor-cantor-would-ultimately/)

[Charles Seife](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-seife/)

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