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Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal.

— Leonard Mlodinow The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

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The law of small numbers is not really a law. It is a sarcastic name describing the misguided attempt to apply the law of large numbers when the numbers aren't large.

The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

Obviously it can be a mistake to assign brilliance in proportion to wealth.

The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom.

The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

The theory of randomness is fundamentally a codification of common sense.

The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.

The Drunkard's Walk (2008)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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