Leonard Mlodinow Quote

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In fact, in a study of history the illusion of inevitability has serious consequences that it is one of the few things that both conservative and socialist historians can agree on.


Chapter 10, The Drunkard's Walk, p. 201


Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In...

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In...

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In...

Historians whose profession is to study the past, are as wary as scientists of the idea that events unfold in a manner that can be predicted. In...