Accepting Quote by Nate Silver

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

— Nate Silver

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the…

— Jacques Attali

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we…

— Bertrand Russell

One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did

— Bertrand Russell

A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.

— Karen Armstrong

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability…

— Robert Anderson

Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.

— Ernst Mach

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your…

— RZA

In noise can be read the codes of life, the relations among men. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony; when it is fashioned by man with…

— Jacques Attali

The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science,…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.

— Joan Baez