for certainty, often in direct proportion to its unattainability. How else explain our preoccupation with the future, something we can guess at all we want but cannot actually know at all? As Niels Bohr put it, "Predicting is difficult. Especially the future."Yet we do it all the time.
from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: That's What He Said: The world abounds in Tom Macaulays
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