Quotes About Innumeracy

#1. 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

#2. Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

John Allen Paulos

#3. I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Daniel Tammet

#4. As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy.

May-Britt Moser

#5. You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

Keri Russell

#6. This is democracy," she says. "It is strange. And it is messy. It's not about getting it right. It's about trying to get it right. Yes, it's a bit chaotic. Certainly we will get some things wrong.

Chuck Wendig

#7. A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.

Douglas R. Hofstadter

#8. If you're just going to be like everyone else, why are you even doing this? If you merely replicate competitors, there's no point for your existence. Even if you wind up losing, it's better to go down fighting for what you believe in instead of just imitating others.

Jason Fried

#9. God, grant me the serenity to stop beating myself up for not doing things perfectly, the courage to forgive myself because I'm working on doing better, and the wisdom to know that You already love me just the way I am.

Eleanor Brownn

#10. I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

Bella Thorne

#11. Why don't we have libertarian anarchy? Why does government exist? The answer implicit in previous chapters is that government as a whole exists because most people believe it is necessary.

David D. Friedman

#12. Alex would make a terrible Martian," said Sarah. "He doesn't have a giant laser and he's not planning an Earth-shattering kaboom." She

Seanan McGuire

#13. Sheriff: "There's nothing about her on Facebook, either. If she's not on Facebook, I have to wonder if people are just making her up, if she even exists"
Seth: "I'm not on Facebook"
Sheriff: "I rest my case

Elizabeth George

#14. Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge' ... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world.

Sufjan Stevens

#15. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#16. I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy, where they drive on the sidewalk; and France, where if necessary they will follow you right into the hotel lobby.

Dave Barry