There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic "scientist", the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call "epistemic arrogance", this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.


p. 106 - The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes

There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the...

There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the...

There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the...

There is a certain category of fool—the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the...