[T]he mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward the sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the ne… - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A sign of development for a country is in the lack of prestige for government officials.

If you worry about your reputation you don't deserve to have one.

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.