Kathryn Schulz

“[We] are usually much more willing to entertain the possibility that we are wrong about insignificant matters than about weighty ones. This…

— Kathryn Schulz

“Properly speaking, there is no certainty; there are only people who are certain. —CHARLES RENOUVIER, ESSAIS DE CRITIQUE GÉNÉRALE”

— Kathryn Schulz

Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to…

— Kathryn Schulz

“It takes courage to leave our past selves behind. But it takes even more to carry some token of them with us…

— Kathryn Schulz

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute…

— Kathryn Schulz

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be…

— Kathryn Schulz

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to…

— Kathryn Schulz

As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal…

— Kathryn Schulz

“People have to learn to listen and listen and listen and listen until they finally get it that their partner has their…

— Kathryn Schulz

“That makes the popularity of this series all the more remarkable, especially right now, when truth is hotly contested and expertise is…

— Kathryn Schulz

“It was this hierarchy—so central to Western cosmology for so long that, even today, a ten-year-old could intuitively get much of it…

— Kathryn Schulz

“In our political culture, whether or not a leader has good reasons for changing his mind is generally less important than the…

— Kathryn Schulz