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[Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.
Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.
Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.
Amos believed that people go way out of their way to avoid minor embarrassments and he decided very early on in his life that it was not worth it.
It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
He who sees the past as surprise free is bound to have a future full of surprises.
Happy species endowed with infinite appreciation of pleasures and low sensitivity to pain would probably not survive the evolutionary battle