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Mathematicians believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything… Chaos theory throws it right out the window because in fact there are great categories of phenomena that are inherently unpredictable.

— Michael Crichton

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We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another.

Hence the familiar ideas continue to be repeated, long past their demonstrable validity.

I want to mention in passing that punditry has undergone a subtle change over the years.

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.

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This polarization of the issues has contributed greatly to our national paralysis, because it posits false choices which stifle debate essential to change.

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