Universities have been progressing from providing scholarship for a small fee into selling degrees at a large cost. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To become a philosopher, start by walking very slowly.

Slave food turned to soul food, collards to neck bones

The scientist’s behavior while facing the refutation of his ideas has been studied in depth as part of the so-called attribution bias. You attribute your successes to skills, but your failures to randomness. This explains why these scientists attributed their failures to the “ten sigma” rare event, indicative of the thought that they were right but that luck played against them. Why? It is a human heuristic that makes us actually believe so in order not to kill our self-esteem and keep us going against adversity.