Orio Giarini / Richard Feynman [Archive.org URL]

That risk and uncertainty are important stimulants for life has been trumpeted by wiser observers than me. “. . . Uncertainty, far from being a symptom of imperfection, is in fact a natural property of economics, indeed, probably of all life systems. . . . Uncertainty is the name of the game in the service economy.” That’s from Orio Giarini, of the Geneva Association. Richard Feynman, the Nobel Laureate physicist adds: “. . . it is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”

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