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Amos Tversky Quotes

1937–1996 Israel

Amos Nathan Tversky (March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk.

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It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.

Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle.

Let us take what the terrain gives.

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amos Tversky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.