“I never met a soul in this world as normal as me.”
Source: Lonesome Dove
“There was hardly a page in Markov's book which did not feature the normal law and it cast a spell over me from which I have never fully recovered. Adding to the fascination was the impression that somehow the normal law was the key to mysterious and elusive world of chance phenomena.”
— Mark Kac
Source: Enigmas Of Chance (1985), Chapter 3, The Search For The Meaning Of Independence, p. 55.
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