महान दार्शनिक थैल्स ने इस बात को बहुत संक्षेप में एक बार यूँ कहा था: उनसे पूछा गया, "हे गुरु, सबसे कठिन काम क्या है?" उन्होंने जवाब दिया, "खुद को जानना।" "और सबसे आसान?" "दूसरों को सलाह देना।"
The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly “Oh master,” he was asked, “what is the most difficult thing to do?” “To know thyself”, he replied. “And the easiest?” “To give advice to others.
The great sage Thales once put the general matter succinctly “Oh master,” he was asked, “what is the most difficult thing to do?” “To know thyself”, he replied. “And the easiest?” “To give advice to others.
अति-आत्मविश्वास की एक बेहद खतरनाक बात यह है कि इसका ज्ञान से अक्सर कोई लेना-देना नहीं होता—यानी इंसान जितना कम ज्ञानी होगा, उसका आत्मविश्वास उतना ही ज्यादा होगा।
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge – that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.
A very disturbing feature of overconfidence is that it often appears to be poorly associated with knowledge – that is, the more ignorant the individual, the more confident he or she might be.
चिम्पांजी और इंसानों का लगभग 99.5 प्रतिशत विकासात्मक इतिहास एक जैसा है, फिर भी ज्यादातर लोग चिम्पांजी को एक अधूरा और बेकार जीव मानते हैं, जबकि खुद को ईश्वर का सीधा प्रतिनिधि समझते हैं।
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity, while seeing themselves as stepping stones to the Almighty.
चाहे हम विचार की स्वतंत्रता की कितनी भी वकालत करें, सच तो यह है कि हम अपना ज्यादातर समय अपने विचारों के उलट आने वाली बातों को रोकने में ही बिता देते हैं। हम ऐसी जगहों या किताबों की तलाश करते हैं जो हमारे पुराने विचारों का समर्थन करें और उनसे बचते हैं जो ऐसा नहीं करतीं।
However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don’t.
However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don’t.
मुझे अर्थशास्त्र के बारे में कुछ नहीं पता और—विकास के नियमों के हिसाब से—मैं 2008 की मंदी के बारे में पहले से कुछ नहीं बता सकता था, लेकिन पिछले तीस सालों से मेरा उस तथाकथित 'अर्थशास्त्र' विज्ञान से मतभेद रहा है, जो खुद को ठोस ज्ञान पर आधारित करने में पूरी तरह असफल रहा है, और जिसका खामियाजा हम सबको भुगतना पड़ रहा है।
I know nothing about economics and – from evolutionary logic – could not have predicted a thing about the collapse of 2008, but I have disagreed for thirty years with an alleged science called economics that has resolutely failed to ground itself in underlying knowledge, at a cost to all of us.
I know nothing about economics and – from evolutionary logic – could not have predicted a thing about the collapse of 2008, but I have disagreed for thirty years with an alleged science called economics that has resolutely failed to ground itself in underlying knowledge, at a cost to all of us.