The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the unknown.
Interviewers actively fool themselves, finding ways to learn from interviews even if there's actually nothing there to learn from.
There are no right answers to wrong questions.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
You can have opinions, but it doesn't mean they're right.
The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.
But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.
Anecdotal experience, unfortunately, trumps scientific evidence.
People who jump to conclusions rarely alight on them.
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
(Thomas Babington Macaulay's History of England was so full of errors of fact and interpretation that:) It is beyond our hopes to overtake Lord Macaulay.... We can only hope that Truth will follow swiftly enough to fasten the label "Liar" to his genteel coattails.
Even moderate confirmation bias can result in reality dysmorphia.
We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.
