# Quote — Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile

> [A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.

- Author: [Nassim Nicholas Taleb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb.md)
- Book: [Antifragile](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile.md)
- Page: 116
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb#Antifragile:_Things_That_Gain_from_Disorder_(2012)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/a-theory-is-a-very

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> Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.

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> When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

p. 102 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/when-some-systems.md)

> There is no such thing as a failed soldier, dead or alive (unless he acted in a cowardly manner)—likewise there is no such thing as a failed entrepreneur or failed scientific researcher ...

p. 79 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nassim-nicholas-taleb/antifragile/there-is-no-such.md)