“Can I trust you, my friend?” “If you can’t, then what is my assurance worth?” - Robert A. Heinlein

Quantum mechanics and Schrödinger’s cat tossed out the clockwork world of 1890 and replaced it with a fog of probability in which anything could happen. Of course the intellectual class did not notice this for many decades, as an intellectual is a highly educated man who can’t do arithmetic with his shoes on, and is proud of the lack.

People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.

You have to believe evidence when you have it in front of you, or else the universe is just too fantastic.