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Quote2Note: Stephen Hawking on #ignorance #knowledge #illusion of knowledge
Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests
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February 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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#quote2note: Marie Curie on getting s___t done :)
“ One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done" -  Marie Curie
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December 6, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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Quote2note: On the scientific mind - right questions vs right answers
The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.          • Claude Levi-Strauss, The Raw and the C...
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January 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Quote2note: E. L. Thorndike on importance of psychological #measurement
Whatever exists at all exists in some amount.  To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality -  E. L. Thorndi...
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January 3, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Quote2note: On science and facts
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones, but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a ...
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January 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Quote2Note: #Copernicus (via Reed) on the danger of being right when the rest of the world is wrong - or, the “intertia of #tradition”
Copernicus . . . did not publish his book [on the nature of the solar system] until he was on his deathbed. He knew how dangerous it is to b...
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February 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Quote2note: Merton on #faith #institutions #science and healthy #skepticism
Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.      • Robert K. Merton, Social Theory...
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January 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Quote2note: The difference between #knowledge and #wisdom
“ Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification" - Harold Fabing and Ray Marr
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January 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Quote2note: On university (school) and business #committees :)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. • Sir Barnett Cocks, in New Scientist, 1973 Click on i...
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January 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Quote2note: Niels Bohr on experts and mistakes
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field. Niels Boh r, recalled on his death, November 18...
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December 16, 2024 at 12:42 AM
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#quote2note: #Galton on #measurement
Whenever you can, count.                         — Sir Francis Galton
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December 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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#quote2note: Louis Agassiz on stages of #scientific truth
" Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it conflicts   with the Bible. Next they say it had been disco...
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December 10, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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#quote2note: Voltaire on #individualdifferences
" Minds differ still more than faces" -Voltaire
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December 8, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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#quote2note: All models [#statistical; #scientific] are wrong, but some are useful” (George Box)
One of my favorite quotes in the context of statistical models of intelligence or cognitive abilities.
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November 20, 2024 at 5:56 PM