It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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Bounded rationality means that people make quite reasonable decisions based on the information they have. But they don’t have perfect information, especially about more distant parts of the system.
~ Donella Meadows
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Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré
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The truth of the matter is that no one can teach you how to think; but what they can do is teach you how to think for yourself.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
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A new paper by Ashish Arora, Sharon Belenzon, Larisa C. Cioaca, Lia Sheer and Hansen Zhang, five economists, suggests that universities’ blistering growth and the rich world’s stagnant productivity could be two sides of the same coin.
~ via The Economist
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I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
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