Monday, February 24, 2020

Customized

In God's body shop, each of us was customized.  But science came along to substitute statistical inference for free will.  We are now a tribe of likelihoods.

-- John Leonard (25 February 1939 - 5 November 2008), American literary, TV, film, and cultural critic, Private Lives in the Imperial City, "On Being Average" p. 49 (1979)

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