Famous Quotes

"Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge."

Nate Silver on Knowledge

More quotes about Knowledge

• "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Information is not knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

  Marcus Garvey on Knowledge

• "Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

  Albert Einstein on Knowledge

• "Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."

  William Shakespeare on Knowledge

More quotes by Nate Silver

• "I love South American food, and I haven't really been down there. I really need a vacation."

• "When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen."

• "When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake."

• "We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise."

• "By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes."