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Quotes About Unjustifiably

There is real danger that, by strengthening our abilities to analyze some questions mathematically, we acquire a general confidence in our beliefs, which extends unjustifiably to those things we're still wrong about.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
There is real danger that, by strengthening our abilities to analyze some questions mathematically, we acquire a general confidence in our beliefs, which extends unjustifiably to those things we're still wrong about. We become like those pious people who, over time, accumulate a sense of their own virtuousness so powerful as to make them believe the bad things they do are virtuous too. I'll do my best to resist that temptation. But watch me carefully.
~ Jordan Ellenberg
nature (including the human mind) still holds deep mysteries toward which science can sometimes seem arrogant and unjustifiably dismissive.
~ Michael Pollan
chosen to complement the curtains and feel quite unjustifiably proud that that a sister of mine
~ Harry Bingham