Mansoor

“يٌبنى العلم بالحقائق،مثلما يٌبنى المنزل بالاحجار. إلا أن مجموعة
الحقائق لا تمثل علماً بقدر ما لا تمثل كومة الاحجار منزلا”
― Charles M. Wynn, Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins

“This cognitive dissidence causes people to create conspiracy theories, like the ones above, to change facts to match their beliefs, rather than changing their beliefs to match facts.”
― Bo Bennett, Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)

“‎The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to a wide range of events; they search for relationships between things; and they think you can't understand the part without understanding the whole. Westerners live in a simpler, more deterministic world; they focus on salient objects or people instead of the larger picture; and they think they can control events because they know the rules that govern the behavior of objects.”
― Richard E. Nisbett, The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why

“Improbable things happen a lot.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking