Eric

“Take those frauds who practice pseudoscience - do you know who they're most afraid of?"

"Scientists, of course."

"No. Many of the best scientists can be fooled by pseudoscience and sometimes devote their lives to it. But pseudoscience is afraid of one particular type of people who are very hard to fool: stage magicians. In fact, many pseudoscience hoaxes were exposed by stage magicians.”
― Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem

“That’s the human brain,” Attavio VI said. “It creates patterns when there aren’t any. Imagines causality when there is none. Imagines a narrative where none exists. It’s in the design of the brain itself. It’s primed to lie.” “And primed to believe the lie.”
― John Scalzi, The Collapsing Empire

“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

“I'm not good with children," the god confessed. "Or people. Well, any organic life forms, really.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero