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The measure of reality by Alfred W. Crosby
  1. In his book The Measure of Reality (Crosby, 1997), the historian Alfred Crosby presented the following thesis: what distinguished Western Europe from the rest of the world is obsession with measurement, the transformation of the qualitative into the quantitative. (This is not strictly true, the ancients were also obsessed with measurements, but they did not have the Arabic numerals to do proper calculations.)

    — Nassim Taleb

    2012-11-27 in Antifragile