Affair Quote by Lin Yutang

“Getting rid of human judgments altogether—even those from highly experienced and credentialed people—and relying solely on numbers plugged into formulas, often yields better results.”

— Andrew McAfee

One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than…

— Heinrich Hertz

The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its…

— William James

“As dysfunctional as they may be on occasion, our theories, preconceptions, and “biases” are what make us smart.”

— Thomas Gilovich

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Humans need simplifications in order to understand almost anything complex. That's one of our basic biases!

— Bryan Johnson

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

— Albert Einstein

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

— William Mulholland

The inadequacy of human logic is directly because of human emotion.

— Jeremy Limn

I'm not a very analytical person.

— Patti Smith

While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.

— Michael Mandelbaum