2004-01-15

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"Human kinds exist only in human minds."
David Berreby

"There's always a faster gun."
Dennis Overbye

"The world cannot function without partially ignorant people."
Gerd Gigerenzer

"1. A certain portion of all predictions made by experts will be correct.
2. Human memory is short.
3. Make lot of forecasts, most of the people will remember the correct ones.
4. A good hedge: make contradictory predictions with intervals between them."
Yossi Vardi

"Everything in biology is more complicated than you think it is, even taking into account Golomb's Law."
Beatrice Golomb

"There are three sides to every story."
Delta Willis

"Art takes you out of town, and gives you a destination. Science builds the bus that takes you there."
Henry Warwick

"Art tells the jokes that science insists on explaining."
Henry Warwick

"When you're trying to prove something, it helps to know it's true."
Steven Strogatz

"The faster Science and Technology advance—the more important it is to teach and to learn the basics of Math and Science and the less important it is to teach and to learn the latest developments."
Haim Harari

"There is no Fundamental Law."
Anton Zeilinger

"Time does exist."
Lee Smolin

"If you find that most other people, upon closer inspection, seem to be somewhat comical or ludicrous, it is highly probable that most other people find that you are in fact comical or ludicrous. So you don't have to hide it, they already know."
Tor Nørretranders

"When two incompatible beliefs are advocated with equal intensity, the truth does not lie half way between them.2
Richard Dawkins

"Things that persist, persist; things that don't, don't."
Steve Grand

"Nature and nurture are not in opposition; nature is what makes nurture possible."
Gary Marcus

"People are never more honest than you think they are."
Colin Blakemore

"All laws are local."
Alan Alda

"A law does not know how local it is."
Alan Alda

"Humans are not in control of the web; the memes are."
Susan Blackmore

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