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“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
― André Gide

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“It was the absence of doubt—and scientific rigor—that made medicine unscientific and caused it to stagnate for so long.”
― Philip Tetlock, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction

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“Kahneman and other pioneers of modern psychology have revealed that our minds crave certainty and when they don't find it, they impose it.”
― Philip E. Tetlock

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“The cult of Mao and the cult of Lei Feng were two faces of the same coin: one was the cult of personality; the other, its essential corollary, was the cult of impersonality”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“Think about the love of your life and the countless events that had to happen as they did to bring the two of you together. (...) Once, it was vanishingly unlikely that you two would meet. And yet, you did. What do you make of that? Most people don' think "Wow, what luck!" Instead, they take the sheer improbability of it happening, and the fact it happened, as proof it was meant to happen.”
― Philip E. Tetlock

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