Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes

#1. The psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has a simple heuristic. Never ask the doctor what you should do. Ask him what he would do if he were in your place. You would be surprised at the difference

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. Peace of mind is a perception of a calm and quiet mind.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy
that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#4. An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#5. A plan is not a routine that a man does every day; it is not even a time table

Sunday Adelaja

#6. If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Luis Walter Alvarez

#7. Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#8. You don't get the pint, Woodrow, I've walked the earth in my pride all these years. If that's lost, then let the rest be lost with it. There's certain things my vanity won't abide.

Larry McMurtry

#9. Definite settlement of the question. From the deck, where I merely turned round and looked, I saw the light of another summer

Henry James

#10. We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#11. Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Gerd Gigerenzer

#12. A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for light both metaphorical and real. Writing with a controlled lyrical passion, Marly Youmans has crafted the finest, and the truest period novel I've read in years.

Lucius Shepard