About Quote by Sendhil Mullainathan

It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

— Isaac Asimov

When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know,…

— Marie Howe

Francis [Collins] keeps saying things like "From the perspective of a believer." Once you buy into the position of faith, then suddenly you find…

— Richard Dawkins

This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary;…

— Jeremy Narby

I've just always been fascinated by what our belief can do, and what happens when we misuse that.

— M. K. Hobson

People sometimes are so confident in their flawed beliefs that they get stuck - fixated - and as a result are blinded to insights…

— Gary A. Klein

People often ask me why I persisted in doing research on a subject that was so controversial. I frequently respond by telling them that…

— Stanley B. Prusiner

People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong…

— Damian Thompson

“Confusion is like a delusion, it's like dust covering the mirror of your real potentials and identity followed by your true belief system by…

— Mohsin Ali Shaukat

When you question what you believe, you leave the world, really, and what the world believes. It puts you in a very interesting position.

— Byron Katie

It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and…

— Bertrand Russell

“A person’s conclusions can only be as solid as the information on which they are based. Thus, a person who is exposed to almost…

— Thomas Gilovich