In The Old Days When People Invented

It May Be Appropriate To Quote A Statement Of Poincare, Who Said (partly In Jest No Doubt) That There Must Be Something Mysterious About The Normal Law Since Mathematicians Think It Is A Law Of Nature Whereas Physicists Are Convinced That It Is A Mathematical Theorem.

Every Phenomenon, However Trifling It Be, Has A Cause, And A Mind Infinitely Powerful, And Infinitely Well-informed Concerning The Laws Of Nature Could Have Foreseen It From The Beginning Of The Ages. If A Being With Such A Mind Existed, We Could Play No Game Of Chance With Him; We Should Always Lose.

A Sane Mind Should Not Be Guilty Of A Logical Fallacy, Yet There Are Very Fine Minds Incapable Of Following Mathematical Demonstrations.

Why Is It That Showers And Even Storms Seem To Come By Chance, So That Many People Think It Quite Natural To Pray For Rain Or Fine Weather, Though They Would Consider It Ridiculous To Ask For An Eclipse By Prayer.

But All Of My Efforts Served Only To Make Me Better Acquainted With The Difficulty, Which In Itself Was Something.