Ivar Ekeland (1944) French mathematician
Source: The Best of All Possible Worlds (2006), Chapter 10, A Personal Conclusion, p. 188.
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Ralph Nader (1934) American consumer rights activist and corporate critic
Breaking Through Power (2016)
“Ultimately, it was easier to change the subject than think the unthinkable.”
Charles Stross book Singularity Sky
Source: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 13, “Jokers” (p. 280)
“It might be easier
To fail with land in sight,
Than gain my blue peninsula
To perish of delight.”
Emily Dickinson Life, and Death, and Giants —
Life, p. 69
Collected Poems (1993)
Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter
Source: I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
“It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.”
Hannah Arendt book The Human Condition
The Human Condition (1958).
“To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both eyes, is easier than to think.”
John Allen Paulos (1945) American mathematician
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 3, “Pseudoscience” (p. 67; quoting William Cowper)
