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What we use in the book... are ways which we think might... provide gripping narratives, and yet provide a realistic way of communicating small risks...

— David Spiegelhalter Micromorts and microlives (2013)

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We need to think slow instead of fast, and resist drawing causal links between events where none may exist.

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A lot of the communication now is using absolute risk, which is a huge improvement.

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Life-expectancy reduced by 1 year = about 30 minutes off your life expectancy for each day with the habit = 1 Microlife

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It’s a common human tendency to attribute a causal effect between different events, even when there isn’t one present...

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Relative risks are very valuable in... low probability, high impact events.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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