Attention Quote by Stephen J. Dubner

“When the evidence for an anomaly becomes overwhelming, and the anomaly cannot be easily accommodated by the existing scientific worldview, this is a very…

— Dean Radin

“We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.”

— Ryan Holiday

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

“It is often precisely these irresolvable issues that arouse our most impassioned certainty that we are right and our adversaries are wrong. To my…

— Kathryn Schulz

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the…

— Alan Greenspan

“Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!”

— Abhijit Kar Gupta

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

— David Ignatius

...if the fear of falling into error is the source of a mistrust in Science, which in the absence of any such misgivings gets…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

— Frank Herbert

Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous…

— Pal Benko

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

— Tim Ferriss