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“I cannot see even the highest-quality news outlets conveying a neutral and nondramatic representative picture of the world, as statistics agencies do. It would be correct but just too boring. We should not expect the media to move very far in that direction. Instead it is up to us as consumers to learn how to consume the news more factfully, and to realize that the news is not very useful for understanding the world.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“As a child, be well-behaved.
As a youth, be self-controlled.
As an adult, be just.
As an elder, be wise.
As one dying, be without pain.”
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As a youth, be self-controlled.
As an adult, be just.
As an elder, be wise.
As one dying, be without pain.”
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“Remember: things can be bad, and getting better.”
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
― Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“We ought not to flatter ourselves with any idea of "absolute" or "final" rigor in contemporary mathematics. In a science that is not yet dead and mummified, there is not and cannot be anything perfect.”
― Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
― Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning
“A physical understanding is a completely unmathematical, imprecise, and inexact thing, but absolutely necessary for a physicist.”
― The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 2
― The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol 2
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