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“Discovery is a child’s privilege. I mean the small child, the child who is not afraid to be wrong, to look silly, to not be serious, and to act differently from everyone else. He is also not afraid that the things he is interested in are in bad taste or turn out to be different from his expectations, from what they should be, or rather he is not afraid of what they actually are. He ignores the silent and flawless consensus that is part of the air we breathe – the consensus of all the people who are, or are reputed to be, reasonable.”
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“One should never try to prove anything that is not almost obvious.”
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“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage we have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
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“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.”
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Akshay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Akshay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
162 books
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148 friends
757 books
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426 friends
468 books
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216 friends
465 books
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11 friends
4 books
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37 friends
21 books
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44 friends
49 books
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23 friends
42 books
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54 friends
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