Semmelweis Reflex Quotes & Sayings

Semmelweis reflex: The tendency to reject new evidence or new knowledge because it contradicts established norms, beliefs or paradigms — Ignaz Semmelweis

In the drug war, the enemy is racially defined. The — Michelle Alexander

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong. — Raymond Chandler

Even on TV appearances or big shows, I don't know if I've ever been as nervous as I was my first time doing stand-up. I just remember getting offstage and sitting down, and my right knee was just shaking from the adrenaline. — Hannibal Buress

I was not able to work up much enthusiasm over the ball game, and in the midst of it I was handed a note informing me of the sudden death of Senator Dwight morrow. He had proved a great pillar of strength in the senate and his death was a great loss to the country and to me. I left the ballpark with the chant of the crowd ringing in my ears, 'We Want Beer!' — Herbert Hoover

Semmelweis reflex. They — Peter Watts

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food. — Isaac Watts

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire! — Daniel Clowes