Quote by Victor Cheng

What I hankered for was an account of knowledge which would do far more than get our intuitions about cases right; I wanted a…

— Hilary Kornblith

“...a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable.”

— Robert James Waller

“ask thought-provoking questions that guide you to collect information and look for very specific patterns, rather than shotgunning and looking at everything in the…

— Nat Greene

When people ask a question that is based on a false premise or a question that skips over some details... what we try to…

— Jen Psaki

While many conclusions are drawn... the process of asking questions is more important than the answers... an ongoing process of discovery.

— John Paul Caponigro

“The mechanism is a probabilistic method called conditional information: Unless the source of the statement has extremely high qualifications, the statement will be more…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The point being that when there are lots of possible answers, most of the evidence you need goes into just locating the true hypothesis…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Probability is orderly opinion and inference from data is nothing other than the revision of such opinion in the light of relevant new information.”

— Eliezer S. Yudkowsky

The theory, hypothesis, framework, or background knowledge held by an investigator can strongly influence what is observed.

— Norwood Russell Hanson

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because…

— Jennifer K. McArthur

“When there are lots of possibilities, most of the work goes into just locating the true answer - starting to pay attention to it.…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky