Quotes About Diversity

The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

Reading should be like eating, we should have the dessert as well as the substantials. It would be a great mistake to eat dessert alone, and it is certainly a mistake to read light, frothy reading matter alone.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works. The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

considering that alternative outcomes could have taken place, that the world could have been different, is the core of probabilistic thinking.

It is always convenient to invoke universalism when you are in the majority.

it so happens that America is currently far, far more creative than these nations of museumgoers and equation solvers. It is also far more tolerant of bottom-up tinkering and undirected trial and error. And

Science isn't the sum of what scientists think, but exactly as with markets. Had science operated by majority consensus, we would be still stuck in the Middle Ages.

Options like dispersion of outcomes and don't care about the average too much.

Every man believes himself to be quite different

religion without tolerance

the collective (and the aggregate) are disproportionately less predictable than individuals.

Just look at how different the large stone is from the pebbles:

What a contrast with the other traders who lacked polish!

Diversity here has to do with the degree of uncertainty inherent in the process.

if wealth is giving you fewer options instead of more (and more varied) options, you're doing it wrong.

It was taken for granted that people learned to be tolerant there;

I recall how we were taught in school how far more civilized and wiser we were than those in the Balkan communities

When you consider beliefs in evolutionary terms, do not look at how they compete with each other, but consider the survival of the populations that have them.

In fact the rest are already benefiting from the contribution of the minority.

parties are great for optionality).

you can practice your freedom of religion so long as you allow me to practice mine; you have the right to contradict me so long as I have the right to contradict you.

Things are not as simple as that. We

Clearly, binary outcomes are not very prevalent in life; they mostly exist in laboratory experiments and in research papers. In life, payoffs are usually open-ended, or, at least, variable.

it is easier for your brain to detect differences rather than absolutes