“There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.”
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“There’s always enough random success to justify almost anything to someone who wants to believe.”
Source: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (1988), Chapter 2, “Probability and Coincidence” (p. 44)
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