Skip to content

Pay attention Quote by Kathryn Schulz

“The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong, if we can add that idea to our cognitive toolkit, we will be better able to listen with curiosity and empathy to those whose theories contradict our own. We will be better able to…” quote by Kathryn Schulz
Download Open image
““The idea behind the meta-induction is that all of our theories are fundamentally provisional and quite possibly wrong, if we can add that idea to our cognitive toolkit, we will be better able to listen with curiosity and empathy to those whose theories contradict our own. We will be better able to pay attention to counterevidence - those anomalous bits of data that make our picture of the world a little weirder, more mysterious, less clean, less done. And we will be able to hold our own beliefs a bit more humbly, in the knowledge that better ideas are almost certainly on the way.””

Kathryn Schulz

4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings)

More by Kathryn Schulz

Explore all 87 Kathryn Schulz quotes

More Pay attention quotes

Browse all 2,636 Pay attention quotes