Lewis — The Undoing Project
Book page: lewis-undoing-project
From: Quotes batch 12
Edition: W. W. Norton & Company (2016)
On Decision Making and Bias
“Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic universe. We try to find patterns in the noise because we cannot bear the thought of randomness.” (p. 212)
On Critical Thinking
“The mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions. Expertise is the ability to slow that machine down.” (p. 184)
On Cognition
“We overestimate how much we understand the world and underestimate the role of chance.” (p. 240)