Steven Pinker

“We don’t have enough knowledge to precisely calculate what is going to happen, and so we assign probabilities to it, which reflects our ignorance of the situation.”

A thesaurus isn’t for finding fancy words; it’s a resource to help you keep your rhythm.

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“The fear of panic has killed more people than most disasters themselves.”

The surface and atmosphere is colored by ferric oxides. Beneath a very thin layer, mere millimeters deep in places, it’s not red anymore.