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What is needed is courage: it is always so much easier to accept what you are being told than to think for yourself.

— Ivar Ekeland The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

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We do not discover mathematical truths; we remember them from our passages through this world outside our own.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

If there is a God, he has left no tracks in the laws of physics; or if he has, he has covered them up very well.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

An equilibrium is not always an optimum; it might not even be good. This may be the most important discovery of game theory.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

The world is full, at every scale, and every scale ignores the higher and lower ones.

The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006)

The social world is not driven by natural laws and randomness alone, as the physical world is, but also by human wills.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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