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Nassim Nicholas Taleb : Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave. # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Michel de Montaigne : " Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Salvador Dali : " Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin : " There is neither spirit nor matter in the world; the stuff of the universe is spirit-matter. No other substance but this could produce the human molecule. I know very well that this idea of spirit-matter is regarded as a hybrid monster, a verbal exorcism of a duality which remains unresolved in its terms. But I remain convinced that the objections made to it arise from the mere fact that few people can make up their minds to abandon an old point of view and take the risk of a new idea... Biologists or philosophers cannot conceive a biosphere or noosphere because they are unwilling to abandon a certain narrow conception of individuality. Nevertheless, the step must be taken. For in fact, pure spirituality is as unconceivable as pure materiality. Just as, in a sense, there is no geometrical point, but as many structurally different points as there are methods of deriving them from different figures, so every spirit derives its reality and nature from a particular type of universal synthesis. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Desiderius Erasmus : " What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things? " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Michael J Gelb : " Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Eugene Ionesco : " For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Celia Green : " The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe : " By seeking and blundering we learn. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Sergei Akhromeyev : " We are not pursuing research to develop ABM space systems. There are studies to improve systems of warning against a missile attack, communications and navigation systems and to develop ground-based ABM defences. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Madame Marie Curie : " Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit. A well-organized society should assure to such workers the efficient means of accomplishing their task, in a life freed from material care and freely consecrated to research. " # Science and Scientists # Risk # Research

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " My major hobby is teasing people who take themselves and the quality of their knowledge too seriously and those who don’t have the guts to sometimes say: I don’t know...." # Money # Knowledge # Love

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear." # Failure # Success # Character

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality." # Risk # Love # Reality

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point." # Mistakes

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns." # Nations

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " I try to make money infrequently, as infrequently as possible simply because I believe that rare events are not fairly valued, and that the rarer the event, the more undervalued it will be in price." # self-esteem # Thoughts and Thinking # Money

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it." # Information # Mathematics # Research

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead." # Death and Dying

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " Science evolves from funeral to funeral." # Science and Scientists # Funerals # Death and Dying

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb: " Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive." # Belief # Fear # Motivation

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