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I developed the governing impression that our minds are wonderful explanation machines, capable of making sense out of almost anything, capable of mounting explanations for all manner of phenomena, and generally incapable of accepting the idea of unpredictability. These events were unexplainable, but intelligent people thought they were capable of providing convincing explanations for them—after the fact.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Obviously it is a difficult problem. But with the rash courage one has only when one is twenty, I immediately decided that this was the problem I wanted to work on.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
The ability to move freely, to shift from one category to another, is one of the chief characteristics of ‘abstract thinking.’”
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