History including that of evolution is just "one damned thi… - Per Bak

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History including that of evolution is just "one damned thing after another We can explain in hindsight what has happened but we cannot predict what will happen in the future. The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard expressed the same view in his famous phrase "Life is understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.

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Per Bak (December 8, 1948 – October 16, 2002) was a Danish theoretical physicist who coauthored the 1987 academic paper that coined the term "self-organized criticality."

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