A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World

“I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.”

“What little I do know I hope I am certain of.”

“Wisdom don’t consist in knowing more that is new, but in knowing less that is false.”

“The trouble with people is not that they don’t know but that they know so much that ain’t so.”

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It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.

It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

—MARK TWAIN