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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress QUOTES

1 " A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

2 " What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

3 " when a person’s commitment to evidence and logic grows dangerously thin or simply snaps under the burden of fear, wishful thinking, tribalism, or ecstasy, we recognize that he’s being “religious. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

4 " Psychological well-being is not determined by the presence of one type of emotion but by a diversity of emotions, both positive and negative. Whether or not an emotion is “good” or “bad” seems to have surprisingly little to do with the emotion itself but rather with how mindfully we ride the ebbing and flowing tides of our rich emotional life. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

5 " Publication bias is the tendency to not publish “negative,” or nonconfirmatory, results. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

6 " us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

7 " WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) samples make up most nonclinical neuroimaging studies as well. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

8 " After all, there have never been loonies carrying signs saying, “The End is Not Near. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

9 " A recent study found that non-abused six- to fourteen-month-olds who showed disregard for others’ distress were significantly more likely to be antisocial as adolescents. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

10 " As the French cognitive scientist Dan Sperber put it, cultures are epidemics of mental representations. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

11 " Just as you can’t attribute the spin of a proton to any one of its constituents, you can’t attribute an event in time to a single earlier cause. Complex systems have neither a useful notion of individuality nor a proper notion of causality. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

12 " Cancer will be understood properly only by positioning it within the great sweep of evolutionary history. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

13 " we may just have to come around to the notion that there’s my universe and there’s your universe—but there’s no such thing as the universe. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

14 " Can it be that all of physics—and, indeed, all of science—is based on creating all the matter in the universe from a dozen objects with totally random mass values, while no one has the faintest idea about their origin? "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

15 " What people remember about Fukushima is that nuclear opponents predicted that hundreds or thousands would die or become ill from the radiation. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

16 " Twain said: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know, it’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

17 " In fact nobody died, nobody became ill, and nobody is expected to. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

18 " For me, the laws that apply to animals apply to us. And in that view of life, there is grandeur enough. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

19 " We all die. Nearly half of us die of cancer (38 percent of females, 45 percent of males). "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress

20 " Karl Popper famously suggested the criterion of “falsifiability”: A theory is scientific if it makes clear predictions that can be unambiguously falsified. "

― John Brockman , This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress