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The conventional wisdom is often wrong.


Steven D. Levitt

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STEVEN MAGEE Many mistakes makes for a very smart person.
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STEVEN JOHNSON This man has conquered the world! What have you done?"
The philosopher replied without an insta...
STEVEN PRESSFIELD A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when ...
STEVEN MAGEE Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that...
STEVEN PINKER A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for ...
STEVEN BIKO We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.
STEVEN SQUYRES The police seem to be learning the hard way that the more abusive they are to people, the less peopl...
STEVEN MAGEE Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have com...
STEVEN BIKO The backbone of the electrical grid is largely massive numbers of steam driven engines that turn ele...
STEVEN MAGEE Chance favors the connected mind.
STEVEN JOHNSON Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising ...
STEVEN MAGEE The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossibl...
STEVEN MOFFAT I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.
STEVEN WRIGHT I dread having to call the police, as I have no idea if they will send good cop, bad cop, lying cop,...
STEVEN MAGEE The gifts of the Master are these: freedom, life, hope, new direction, transformation, and intimacy ...
STEVEN JAMES Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...
STEVEN ERIKSON Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
STEVEN SPIELBERG Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
STEVEN WRIGHT An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
STEVEN WEINBERG