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Asimov had an interesting essay on Einstein's relationship to Vulcan. |
I just plucked this gem from the article -
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People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
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And isn't that what Bad Astronomy and JayUtah's Clavius are about? |
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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.
"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
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