
“… the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.”
Source: The Lion
Source: The Mismeasure of Man (1996), p. 272
“… the most common cause of death among alpha males was ego.”
Source: The Lion
“Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.”
“Among all the studies of natural causes and reasons, light most delights the contemplators”
Perspectiva communis, translated by, and appearing in the notebooks (C.A.<sub>543r</sub>) of Leonardo da Vinci, as quoted by Martin Kemp, Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man (2006) p. 112.
Context: Among all the studies of natural causes and reasons, light most delights the contemplators; among the great things of mathematics, the certainty of its demonstrations most illustriously elevates the minds of its investigators; perspective must therefore be preferred to all human discourses and disciplines, in the study in which radiant lines are expounded by means of demonstrations and in which the glory is found not only of mathematics, but also physics: it is adorned with the flowers of one and the other.
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 274
It has always puzzled me.
Against 'measurement' (1990)
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 5, “Statistics, Trade-Offs, and Society” (p. 159)
p. 50 https://books.google.com/books?id=Zsm3TLe1cAUC&pg=PA50
The Expansion of England (1883)