Sublime

Recentrant son propos sur le politique, il s’agit de démontrer que la meilleure organisation publique est celle qui laisse à chacun la liberté de croire, de penser et de s’exprimer.

Une bonne partie du livre traite des insuffisances de la vision libérale du monde et du système démocratique. Non que je tienne la démocratie libérale pour plus problématique que d’autres : je crois plutôt qu’elle est le modèle politique le plus réussi et le plus polyvalent que les hommes aient élaboré jusqu’ici pour relever les défis du monde mode

Problem-solving does begin with an inadequate theory – but not with the notional ‘theory’ consisting of past observations.

Albert Einstein: “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

suppose you are doing your study using explanationless science instead – which really means science with unstated, uncriticized explanations, just as the Copenhagen interpretation really assumed that there was only one unobserved history connecting successive observations.

Evolve or die.

Teach and reinforce the merits of mistake-based learning.

Rational behaviour is not defined by conformity with a set of axioms set down even by such distinguished thinkers as John von Neumann and Milton Friedman.

The scientific method—formulating a hypothesis and then testing it—is so deeply ingrained in our thinking that we find it hard to conceive that intelligent people would blindly trust authority and not put assumptions to the test.