Matthew E. Vanaman

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  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100;"><i>With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note.</i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100"> ― Aristotle, <i>The Nicomachean Ethics</i></p>', 
  
     '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100;"><i>The more pessimistic philosophers may be right about the social sciences, of course, but it is better to press on as if they were wrong. There is only one way to find out. The more forbidding the task, the greater the prize for those who dare to undertake it.</i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― E.O. Wilson, <i>Consilience<i> </p>',  
  
    '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100;"><i> Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what\'s right. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Salvor Hardin in Isaac Asimov\'s <i>Foundation<i> </p>', 
  

  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100;"><i> If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight:100"> ― David Hume, <i>An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding<i> </p>',

  
  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> People sometimes say, “Physics is hard ... I’ll go major in psychology.” No. Humans are much harder. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Neil deGrasse Tyson, NBC News interview <i><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16971750" target="_blank">From Black Holes to Black History</a><i> </p>',
  
  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Karl Popper, <i>Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach<i> </p>',
  
  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others ― not by simply taking over another\'s opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Karl Popper, "On Freedom" in <i>All Life is Problem Solving<i> </p>',
  

  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― E.O. Wilson, <i>Consilience<i> </p>', 

  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Francis Bacon describing confirmation bias in 1620, <i>Novum Organum<i> </p>',
  
  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Carl Sagan, <i>Cosmos<i> </p>',
  
'<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i>"This is science." "But this is a turtle!"</i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Nandor the Relentless resisting Colin Robinson\'s explanation of the Big Bang in  <i>What We Do In The Shadows<i> </p>',

  
   '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i> Crisis alone is not enough. </i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> - Thomas Kuhn, <i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions<i> </p>',
  
  '<p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"><i>We\'ll find a way, Professor. We always have.</i></p> <p style="font-family:Source Sans Pro; color:#6e6e6e; max-width: 600px; font-size:90%; font-weight: normal;"> ― Cooper from <i>Interstellar<i> </p>'
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Psychological Scientist | Postdoc in Data Science | University of Texas at Austin

Moral psychologist with a strong secondary interest in understanding what makes scientists good at doing science.

Currently seeking a tenure-track faculty or postdoc position in a psychology or departments emphasizing quantitative social science.