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“A fair system only works if there is an unbiased means of assessing merit. When there is no pride or selfishness involved. Which means that fair systems cannot exist where people are involved.”

We belong to a tradition, but tradition is nothing more than what everyone can agree on. Scientists, teachers, institutions; if you can change ownership of the institutions, then you can change ownership of the facts, and you can alter the structure of belief.

“I’m telling you that you should doubt your [beliefs]. The day on which you decide not to question what you believe, is the day that you start making excuses for why you believe it.”