Deceiving Quote by Imre Lakatos

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

— Eli Broad

Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

— Celia Green

“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After…

— Carl Sagan

“Lies propagate, that's what I'm saying. You've got to tell more lies to cover them up, lie about every fact that's connected to the…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

[There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what…

— Irving Langmuir

“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we are predictably…

— Dan Ariely

“It seems only human nature to hang the label irrational on what we do not understand, since it is easy for us to assume…

— Allen C. Guelzo

Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded…

— Martin Gardner

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

— Benjamin Franklin

“Even without newfangled brain technologies, some forms of deception might become harder to practice thanks to increased availability of many kinds of data, including…

— Nick Bostrom

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one…

— Sebastian Junger

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

— Lillian Hellman