Friday, April 18, 2008

Sod this for a laugh

"Prediction is very difficult," wrote the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. "Especially if it is about the future." Like most scientists, Bohr believed the laws of nature give us little guidance about our everyday lives.

That puts him in the minority. Three quarters of us, according to a new survey, believe in the certainties of "if anything can go wrong, it will".

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