Wisdom
Primitive man, in noticing the relatively few natural coincidences in his environment, slowly developed the raw observational data out of which science evolved. The natural world, however, does not offer immediate evidence for many such coincidences on its surface (no calendars, maps, directories, or even names). But in recent years the plethora of names and dates and addresses and organizations in a complicated world appears to have triggered many people’s inborn tendency to note coincidence and improbability, leading them to postulate connections and forces where there are none, where there is only coincidence.
-John Allen Paulos, <em>Innumeracy</em>
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