mispy comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mispy 05 April 2011 03:08:38AM 15 points [-]

Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there.

-- Richard Feynman

(I don't think he originally meant this in the context of overcoming cognitive bias, but it seems to apply well to that too.)

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 06 April 2011 12:22:37AM 7 points [-]

I think it was originally meant in the context of joy in the merely real.