Books Quote by Art Spiegelman

“Judgments based on preconceptions make life simple for us to deal with since that means we safely shield ourselves behind barriers of preconception that…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to…

— William James

When preconception is so clearly defined, so easily reproduced, so enthusiastically welcomed and so long accommodated as in the case of Piltdown Man, science…

— John Reader

Changing people's preconceptions is something you have to do in order to search for truth. Of course normally, that's not done because it also…

— Jiang Wen

I thrive on misconceptions.

— Peaches

In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every…

— Agatha Christie

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

“On Writing: "A multitude of improbabilities can be forgiven as long as enough plausibility has been established.”

— Danielle Ackley-McPhail

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

— Stephen Jay Gould

Misconceptions play a prominent role in my view of the world.

— George Soros

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

— Lord Kelvin