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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

by Jerome Jerome Stein Stein, Seth Seth Stein Stein
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 26m
English
American Geophysical Union
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The scientist has a lot of experience with ignorance and doubt and uncertainty, and this experience is of very great importance, I think. When a scientist does not know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty damn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress, we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt.

Richard Feynman, 1988

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