"Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics."

--

Source : "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

Steven Pinker

#Memories Quotes #Psychology Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do.”
“When I say I loved it, I don't mean I loved being hit. I just mean...there was some good in there, too. I am not going to call it all bad.”
“I loved Mal Evans holding one note down on You Won't See Me from Rubber Soul.”
“All men are body conscious. If they say they're not, they're lying.”
“Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started.”

Source : Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA
“I declare peace as the greatest work of art.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.

You may also like:

Daniel Dennett
Philosopher
Malcolm Gladwell
Journalist
Matt Ridley
Journalist
Nancy Etcoff
Psychologist
Noam Chomsky
Linguist
Paul Bloom
Professor
Rebecca Goldstein
Novelist
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Sam Harris
Author