Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes About Logic

Quotes about: Logic

• If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Mother, Odds, Law

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012). “Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder”, p.349, Random House

• It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Self, Logic, Accepting

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1783, Random House

• Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Way, Logic

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