Academia Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. ... in the…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”

— Alastair Bonnett

“The argument is that we are influenced by historical research.” Michael Simpson glanced over at Sophie before continuing. “When one commences an education, to…

— Erik Hamre

“The lives of scientists, considered as Lives, almost always make dull reading. For one thing, the careers of the famous and the merely ordinary…

— Peter B. Medawar

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.

— C. S. Lewis

“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been a key…

— Paul Johnson

Einstein is notmerely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow…

— Havelock Ellis

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian

“A foot note in Scale, Geoffery West: The full quotation from Einstein is worth repeating because it emphasizes a central dictum of science: "Propositions…

— Einstein Albert 1879-1955

“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879–1955)”

— Carl Sagan