Education and Danger – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

„Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.“

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, and essayist, known for his work on uncertainty, risk assessment, and randomness.

The quote presents education ambivalently and warns about the consequences of knowledge without wisdom or judgment.


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Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American mathematician, philosopher, essayist, and former trader who gained worldwide recognition for his books on chance, randomness, and uncertainty, especially the "Incerto" series. He specializes in the role of extreme events and non-linearities in complex systems and critiques conventional approaches in economics and statistics.

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