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“I believe in God the way I believe in quarks,” she said coolly. “People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they’ve learned, I’d find quarks and God just like they did.”
― The Sparrow
― The Sparrow
“Much of this data-centric history still haunts us today. We live in an era that presumes Big Data to be the solution to all our problems. Courses in “data science” are proliferating in our universities, and jobs for “data scientists” are lucrative in the companies that participate in the “data economy.” But I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb.”
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
― The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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