"The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do……" — Nate Silver
"The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
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Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
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The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away…
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Yet again, unscientific claims were being circulated broadly, but the scientists' refutation of them was published where only fellow scientists…
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Money is just something to be circulated.
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Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she…
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Because of an off-hand funny comment I made backstage at a concert years ago, a story circulated that the song…
— Don McLean
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God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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And yet because of my attempt at sincerity I have been condemned, hooted at, reviled; filthy rumors have been circulated…
— Erich von Stroheim
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Writing is for stories to be read, books to be published, poems to be recited, plays to be acted, songs…
— Frank Smith
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Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known…
— Hans Selye
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President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like…
— Rajneesh
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Back in 1960, the paper dollar and the silver dollar both were the same value. They circulated next to each…
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