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NASSIM TALEB
“…The great names of the golden years of English
science were hobbyists, not academics:
Charles Darwin, Henry Cavendish, William
Parsons, the Rev. Thomas Bayes.
Britain saw its decline when it switched to the
model of bureaucracy-driven science.”
“Tinkering by trial and error has tradi+onally
played a larger role than directed science in
Western inven+on and innova+on. Indeed,
advances in theore+cal science have most oLen
emerged from technological development, which is
closely +ed to entrepreneurship. Just think of the
number of famous college dropouts in the
computer industry…”