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“I worked 21y full-time in a highly stressful job, researched, studied & wrote 3 books at night. I have NO sympathy for entitlement-academia.”

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a renowned author, scholar, and thinker whose unique perspective and profound insights have had a wide-reaching impact in fields such as finance, statistics, and philosophy. He is best known for his books 'The Black Swan' and 'Fooled by Randomness', which have explored the nature of uncertainty, risk, and probability theory. more

“The conviction that we have always-already known everything that is worth knowing, and that everything we knew is only confirmed—never rejected—by science, has prevented us from developing an ethos of honest inquiry. The compulsion to establish harmony with the core of the Vedic worldview has held back the progress of science in the past, and will continue to hold us back if we continue to go down this path.”

Science Religion Skepticism

Book:Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science

Source: Science In Saffron: Skeptical Essays On History of Science

“Science is noble when it serves humanity, not when it endangers it. Every discovery must be weighed against its ethical impact, for unchecked ambition can harm more than ignorance ever did. Progress should heal, not harm.”

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Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

“In the beginning -i.e., before the beginning, there was NOTHING. And matter came out of nothing. And matter was CHAOS.”

Science Religion

Author:John Y Crighton

“Social media, Dana thought. The biggest intelligence boon since the Catholic Church invented confession”

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