Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born.Seth Shostak
Everything you see is filtered through your visual system (imperfect) and your brain (also imperfect, despite what your mom told you). Witness testimony is the worst kind of evidence in science.Seth Shostak
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?Gloria Steinem
If you hear a statistic, you will make up a story to go with it, because our brains are organized on narrative. And you may very well make up a wrong story because you only have one fact, which is a statistic.Gloria Steinem
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.Alan Turing
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.Niccolo Machiavelli
When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.Simone Weil
