"Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will laugh at their beliefs in the (disappointingly near) future."

-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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“Nature was my kindergarten.”

Source : William Christopher Handy (1947). “Father of the Blues: An Autobiography of W. C. Handy”
“Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.”

Source : "Have Fun with American Heroes: Activities, Projects, and Fascinating Facts". Book by David C. King, p. 82, 2005.
“If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer”
“Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.”
“I came to believe in a power much higher than I”
“So we do have our exits and our entrances and we are perhaps mere, but I think if one keep a certain joyousness in life which should be in playing, then good for one, but it's slightly more serious than that.”
“Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and consciousness. People seem to want there to be an absolute threshold between the living and the nonliving, and between the thinking and the "merely mechanical," ... But the onward march of science seems to force us ever more clearly into accepting intermediate levels of such properties.”
“Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.”

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