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Probability

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You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable.
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― Poor Things
― Poor Things

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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesimal. At the present time we have no legitimate grounds for either asserting or denying that life got off to but a single start on earth, and that, as a consequence, before it appeared its chances of occurring were next to nil. ... Destiny is written co
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― Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology
― Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology