Craptose Intolerance: NYT: All the Bias That Fits

Crap-Free Quotes

John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things. And whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

Stephen Hawking

"The laws of science are sufficient to explain the origin of the universe. It is not necessary to invoke God."

Abraham Lincoln
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."

Albert Einstein
"If you can’t explain it simply, then you don’t understand it well enough."

People's Front of Judea
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

Benjamin Netanyahu
"Most people's sense of history goes back to breakfast time."

Earl Weaver
“I’d rather you walk with the bases loaded.” (after Pat Kelly told him he should walk with God)

Sonny Wortzik
“Sal, Wyoming's not a country.”

Prot
“Your produce alone has been worth the trip.”

Jerry Seinfeld
"Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV."

Steven Wright
"OK, what's the speed of dark?"

Upton Sinclair
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

Napoleon Bonaparte
"Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend."

Monday, March 15, 2010

NYT: All the Bias That Fits