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“The very word essay conveys the tentative, the speculative, and the nondefinitive.”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but is puzzled by order.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The Salviati World Map, 1525.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but in convincing everyone else to believe it.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… of any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort. E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic”
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
― The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Gregory’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gregory’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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