"We apply fight-or-flight reflexes not only to predators, but to data itself."

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Source : "The Science of Why We Don’t Believe Science" by Chris Mooney, www.motherjones.com. May 2011.

Chris Mooney

#Pain Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Data Quotes

“I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal. We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.”
“Danzhol. The one with the marriage proposal and the objections to the town charter in central Monsea. "Bacon," Bitterblue muttered. "Bacon!" she repeated, then carefully made her way up the spiral stairs.”
“I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.”
“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”
“I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves”
“How do you maybe hit someone?â€ Michael drawled. â€œOkay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.”
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”

Source : "Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir".
“What is style? It is an effortless confidence in being yourself, it is a way of putting yourself together according to your mood and what you want to project. Personal style appears to come naturally for some, but for others it can take a while to find it!”

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