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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Science

born 1960 Lebanon

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

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Survival comes first, truth, understanding, and science later.

Skin in the Game (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nassim Nicholas Taleb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.