Sublime

Realizing that knowledge is provisional moves us further and further away from the dream of so many philosophies: finding a foundation to knowledge that can offer certainty.

The economy is not a closed static equilibrium system; it is a system perpetually open to novel behavior, and complexity economics forces us to keep this in mind.

Similarly, Darwin resolved a problem that was not a problem at all in nineteenth-century biology, because his contemporaries were convinced that they already knew the answer.

But what physicists do so well, and most of us do so poorly, is that they carefully delimit what Newtonian and Einsteinian physics are able to explain. They know down to many decimal places where those maps are useful guides to reality, and where they aren’t. And when they hit uncharted territory, like quantum mechanics, they explore it carefully i

we live in a world that is fundamentally ambiguous, and that we can have no absolute certainty about how the world ultimately is.

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

Simplicity can increase efficiency With limited time and resources, it is not possible to track down every theory with a plausible explanation of a complex, uncertain event. Without the filter of Occam’s Razor, we are stuck chasing down dead ends. We waste time, resources, and energy. The great

Foi necessário o surgimento de uma mente precisa e analítica como a de Aristóteles para desmontar de forma sistemática a teoria da hereditariedade de Pitágoras. Aristóteles não era um defensor particularmente ardoroso das mulheres, porém defendia o uso de evidências como base da construção de uma teoria.

On the morning of August 31, 2012, the Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki published four articles on his blog. Those six hundred pages contained a proof of one of the most important conjectures in number theory, known as a + b = c.