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"Mistakes
are inevitable and may be either in missing a true signal or in
thinking there is a signal when there is not. I am suggesting that
believers in the paranormal (called 'sheep' in psychological parlance)
are more likely to make the latter kind of error than are disbelievers
(called 'goats')."
-- "Psychic Experiences:
Psychic Illusions,"
by Susan Blackmore,
Skeptical Inquirer, 1992
"... a drama built out of nothing but numbers and imagination" -- Freeman Dyson, quoted in Log24on the day Mosteller died From Log24 on Mosteller's last birthday, December 24, 2005:
by Arturo Perez-ReverteOne
by one, he tore the engravings from the book, until he had all
nine. He looked at them closely. "It's a pity you can't
follow me where I'm going. As the fourth engraving states, fate
is not the same for all."
"Where do you believe you're going?"
Borja
dropped the mutilated book on the floor with the others. He was looking
at the nine engravings and at the circle, checking strange
correspondences between them.
"To meet someone" was his
enigmatic answer. "To search for the stone that the Great Architect
rejected, the philosopher's stone, the basis of the philosophical work.
The stone of power. The devil likes metamorphoses, Corso."
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"Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: 'Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation'" ( Faust, Part Two) -- Carl Gustav Jung, born on this date
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