Quotes About Association

Churchill wrote, "In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing.

mind is terrifying. Lars often spoke of the malady and

Thinking too much also creates the illusion of causal connections between unrelated events.

contagion perhaps of the disease that ultimately took the

Be critical of classes that contain more than about seven data members. The

There is a difference between correlation and causation - many people mistake one for the other.

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Correlation does not equal causality.

A correlation simply means that a relationship exists between two factors—let's call them X and Y—but it tells you nothing about the direction of that relationship. It's possible that X causes Y; it's also possible that Y causes X; and it may be that X and Y are both being caused by some other factor, Z.

The tradition of the commonplace book contains a central tension between order and chaos, between the desire for methodical arrangement, and the desire for surprising new links of association.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

company. To move in any good circle, even one as

Abstract ideas are connected in a systematic way to more concrete experiences.

If there's a bag in your car, and a gallon of milk in the bag, there is a gallon of milk in your car. But if there's a person in your car, and a gallon of blood in a person, it would be strange to conclude that there is a gallon of blood in your car.

Radical Pragmatics – "words are fluid, and can mean different things in different circumstances. […] And what we draw upon in memory is not a lexicon of definitions but a network of associations among words and the kinds of events and actors they typically convey.

When a grammatical construction is associated with politicians you can be sure that it provides a way to evade responsibility. Zombie nouns, unlike the verbs whose bodies they snatched, can shamble around without subjects. That

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. If it's a duck, it's likely to swim, fly, have a back off which water rolls, and contain meat that's tasty when wrapped in a pancake with scallions and hoisin sauce.

The preposition into means "to in," namely, "to an interior portion of "; onto stands for "to on"; with stands for "a means of changing something.

Studies that assess education at Time 1 and wealth at Time 2, holding all else constant, suggest that investing in education really does make countries richer. At least it does if the education is secular and rationalistic.

When a "nation" is conceived as a tacit social contract among people sharing a territory, like a condominium association, it is an essential means for advancing its members' flourishing. And of course it is genuinely admirable for one individual to sacrifice his or her interests for those of many individuals.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

The Russians love Brooke Shields because her eyebrows remind them of Leonid Brezhnev.

Cacao is rich in happy phenethylamine chemicals called PEA. These compounds have been associated with feeling good and falling in love.