Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I used to be surprised and even depressed when I met someone I had admired and discovered him or her to be a jerk or, perhaps worse, rather common. Now I half expect this reaction and even find it a little reassuring, maybe even uplifting. Isn't it amazing that somebody like that could produce such and such.

John Allen Paulos's Popular Quotes

Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.

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So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers.

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There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless…

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In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite incli…

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Uncertainty would be the only certainty there's, and realizing how to stay with insecurity could be the only protection

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Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

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When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

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Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innu…

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Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think.

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