In his own words
Munger on Inversion
3 sourced quotes. All themes
“Invert, always invert.”
Munger repeatedly attributed the maxim to Jacobi.
“All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there.”
A favorite Munger formulation of inversion; he often presented it as a borrowed country-saying. It became the title of Peter Bevelin's 2016 book.
“Darwin's result was due in large measure to his working method, which violated all my rules for misery and particularly emphasized a backward twist in that he always gave priority attention to evidence tending to disconfirm whatever cherished and hard-won theory he already had.”
Munger characterizing Darwin's habit of giving priority to disconfirming evidence — not a Darwin quote.