"Our conception of chance is one of law and order in large numbers; it is not that idea of chaotic incidence which vexed the mediaeval mind."
— Middle Ages

January 1, 1970

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Karl Pearson, "The Chances of Death" (1895) Lecture before the (Jan. 1895) as quoted in Karl Pearson, The Chances of Death, and Other Studies in Evolution (1897) Vol. 1, pp. 15.