The law of small numbers is not really a law. It is a sarcastic name describing the misguided attempt to apply the law of large numbers when the numb… - Leonard Mlodinow

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.

Random events often come like the raisins in a box of cereal - in groups, streaks, and clusters. And although Fortune is fair in potentialities, she is not fair in outcomes.

It is one of those contradictions of life that although measurement always carries uncertainty, the uncertainty in measurement is rarely discussed.