73 Quotes by Kathryn Schulz

the Catch-22 of wrongology: in order to get rid of error, we would already need to be infallible.

We look into our hearts and see objectivity; we look into our minds and see rationality; we look into our beliefs and see reality.

The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk if the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest if the brain.

The world is outside us; our senses are within us. How, then, do the two come together so that we can know something? Obviously our senses can't go forth and drag an actual chunk of the world back to their internal lair, intact and as is, for the benefit of the rest of the brain.

Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of Error: we can be wrong, or we can know it, but we can't do both at the same time.

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses

Our love of being right is best understood as our fear of being wrong