Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Richard R. Nelson

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is enormously influenced by the culture in which we live. It also is clear that the major elements of modern culture-science, technology, law, music, and religion-have evolved over time in a quite concrete sense of the term. Mesoudi makes these arguments very well and his book is a very good read.

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.