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> [“For one thing, we’re doing publishing wrong.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/for-one-thing-we-re-doing-publishing-wrong/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

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## More by Jordan Ellenberg

> [My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/my-reading-practice-is-one-reason-i-mostly-don-t-read-electronically/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/knowing-mathematics-is-like-wearing-a-pair-of-x-ray-specs-that-reveal/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“numerically flavored advice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/numerically-flavored-advice/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/if-you-decide-what-color-jelly-beans-to-eat-based-just-on-the-papers/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/risky-strategies-can-be-analyzed-numerically-uncertain-strategies/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Mathematics is common sense.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/mathematics-is-common-sense/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/if-we-now-feel-comfortable-rejecting-the-conclusions-of-the-witztum/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/his-most-famous-paradox-goes-like-this-i-decide-to-walk-to-the-ice/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/data-is-messy-and-inference-is-hard/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Math is a science of not being wrong about things,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/math-is-a-science-of-not-being-wrong-about-things/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/scientists-and-statisticians-have-already-been-worrying-about-them/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“torturing the data until it confesses,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/torturing-the-data-until-it-confesses/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/nonlinear-thinking-means-which-way-you-should-go-depends-on-where-you/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“Yes, the existence of human life is evidence for the existence of God; but it’s much better evidence that our world was programmed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/yes-the-existence-of-human-life-is-evidence-for-the-existence-of-god/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

> [“if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jordan-ellenberg/if-he-fails-at-least-fails-while-daring-greatly/)

[Jordan Ellenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jordan-ellenberg/)

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