Tim Urban Quotes



Best What's Our Problem? Quotes by Tim Urban

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“Every statistic you come across, everything you read in a textbook, everything you learn from parents or teachers, everything you see or read in the news or on social media, every tenet of conventional wisdom – it’s all indirect knowledge.

That’s why perhaps the most important skill of a skilled thinker is knowing when to trust.”

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“Genes can’t talk to their animals, so they control them by having them run on specialized survival software I call the 'Primitive Mind'.”

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“Human nature is a constant, and when you put that constant into different environments, it produces different behavior. That makes environment the independent variable.”

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“It’s natural to assume that the world we grew up in is normal. But nothing about our current world is normal. Because technology is exponential.”

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“Your right to swing your arms ends just where another person’s nose begins.”

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