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Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

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Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

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The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist

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It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.

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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.

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In science you need to understand the world; in business you need others to misunderstand it.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Born: 1960 (age 65)
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