There are two ways to beat the cruelty of the environment: You can become stronger or you can become smarter. We chose the latter. It seems most improbable that such a physically weak species could take over the planet not by adding muscles to our skeletons but by adding neurons to our brains.
*Doğanın acımasızlığını alt etmenin iki yolu vardır: Ya daha güçlü olursunuz ya da daha zeki. Biz ikinci yolu seçtik. Fiziksel olarak böylesine zayıf bir türün gezegeni ele geçirmesi imkânsız gibi görünse de, biz bunu iskeletimize kas ekleyerek değil, beynimize nöron ekleyerek başardık.*
I discover that not only does war not thwart life, but that, quite the contrary, it encourages the most improbable connections. Without the war, without this magnificent summer, this absence of men, would we ever have met?
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
He spent an entire life calculating probabilities and she was the most improbable he ever met.
The unthinkable is something we carry with us always. It has already happened: we are improbable, we have emerged from a cloud of unbelievable coincidences.
That time stands still. That gravity is suspended. That the logic of the world and the laws of nature break down. That we are forced to acknowledge that our expectations about the constancy of the world are on shaky ground. There are no guarantees and behind all that we ordinarily regard as certain lie improbable exceptions, sudden cracks and inconceivable breaches of the usual laws.
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