“It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.”
Dennis Lindley (1923–2013) British statistician
5. The Rules of Probability. p. 64.
Understanding Uncertainty (2006)
“Nature, far from being logical, 'is perhaps entirely the excess of itself', smeared ash and flame upon zero, and zero is immense.”
Source: The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (1992), Chapter 6: "The rage of jealous time", p. 73
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